Abstract
In 1904, after being editorially deprived of writing a biography of Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois informed his editor that he wished to write about Nat Turner because “no single man before 1850 had a [more] giant influence on southern loyalties & feeling” than did the failed Virginia insurrectionist. “There is abundant material for his life & times,” he concluded (Du Bois to Oberholtzer, [January 30?, 1904], handwritten draft #00244, W. E .B. Du Bois Papers, UMass Amherst Libraries, University of Massachusetts, Amherst). While Du Bois unfortunately was denied this project too, Patrick H. Breen certainly has proven him correct by making good use of this “abundant material” on Turner, notwithstanding his own recognition that information about the revolt at times “is sketchy and often suspect” (13). Nevertheless, perhaps, no scholar has so deepened the research or so sagaciously and meticulously examined the available sources as we find done in The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt.
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