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Nat Turner in Gaza
Finkelstein, Norman
http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/nat-turner-in-gaza/Year Published: 2023 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX24995 Finkelstein draws parallels between the Nat Turner rebellion in the United States and the Gaza rebellion of 2023. Abstract: - Excerpt: Even as none contested the gruesome facts of the rebellion, southern Blacks did not recoil in horror at Turner's name. On the contrary: "He became a legendary black hero -- enshrined in an oral tradition that still flourishes today. They regard Nat's rebellion as the 'First War' against slavery and the Civil War as the second. So in death Nat achieved a kind of victory denied him in life -- he became a martyred soldier of slave liberation who broke his chains and murdered Whites because slavery had murdered Negroes." Subject Headings |