| #276119 in Books | Baker, Kyle | 2008-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.88 x6.00l,1.26 | File type: PDF | 216 pages | ABRAMS||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A Warts-and-All Biography of an Unsung Hero|By Scott Slemmons|This is Kyle Baker’s amazing graphic novel biography of Nat Turner, the leader of the bloodiest slave rebellion in the United States. Turner was a slave living in Virginia. He’d taught himself to read, because it was illegal to teach slaves to read — slaveowners didn’t want educated slave|From School Library Journal|Grade 10 Up—Originally self-published in four installments, Nat Turner follows the dark legacy of the Virginia slave rebellion and subsequent murders of at least 55 white slave owners and their families in 1831. Baker pre
The story of Nat Turner and his slave rebellion—which began on August 21, 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia—is known among school children and adults. To some he is a hero, a symbol of Black resistance and a precursor to the civil rights movement; to others he is monster—a murderer whose name is never uttered. In Nat Turner, acclaimed author and illustrator Kyle Baker depicts the evils of slavery in this moving and historically accurate ...
You easily download any file type for your device.Nat Turner | Kyle Baker. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
