Profane Illuminations: Theology for Militants
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
Nat Turner's confessions were transcribed by a defense attorney called Thomas Gray shortly before his trial and execution on November 11th in 1831. The barrier of past is magnified by the primacy of white documentation in prevailing narrative forms, novelizations of slave revolts that serve as dumping ground for personal pathology see the novel I mentioned earlier. Few seem to doubt Turner's sincerity but what of his ministry it's hard to doubt that consensus around that Turner's so-called madness remain central fixtures. This prophecy of a man on holy pilgrimage to change the course of history that we interpret through the words of others this leader of peasants renders as paradoxical cliche in our contemporary moment.
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