Nat Turner, Black Prophet

Anthony E. Kaye (1962-2017) taught history at Pennsylvania State University and was the vice president of scholarly programs at the National Humanities Center. An influential scholar of Atlantic slavery and American history, he served as an associate editor of The Journal of the Civil War Era. His final book, Nat Turner, Black Prophet, was completed with the assistance of Gregory P. Downs.Gregory P. Downs, is a professor of history at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of After Appomattox as well as other scholarly books, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post. He received a master's in fine arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is also the author of Spit Baths, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.

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