The Nat Turners of the 21st century
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Ama Biney
The new film on the former slave, Nat Turner, whilst deeply flawed should inspire people to find out more about this historical heroic figure, beyond populist narratives. More importantly, his legacy of revolt should inspire the generation of Black Lives Matter to struggle against new forms of domination in our capitalist, imperialist white supremacist patriarchal world.
In 1967 William Styron, a white Virginian published his novel entitled “The Confessions of Nat Turner” which caused a firestorm amongst black intellectuals for the manner in which it portrayed the historical figure of Nat Turner, who led a slave uprising in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831. Styron portrayed Nat Turner as a depraved fanatical sex-crave...