The Confessions Of Nat Turner Analysis

The Confessions of Nat Turner written by Thomas Gray is still an important document today. The book was originally written to give public eye Nat Tuner side of the story. The confessions has caused many different arguments over the years, concerning if those were the actual words of Nat Tuner himself. Or did Gray make up the confessions himself. I believe that the confessions were real and the details of the motives, and the murders were all true. Yes, Gray knew of every induvial murder during the rebellion because that was most likely released to public, but Gray couldn’t have made up the details of the murders or even what weapons were used on them.
Nat Turner was a man convicted of leading a massive rebellion, in which they killed slave-owners and their family members. The rebellion began in Southampton, Virginia where Tuner and his family worked on a slave plantation. Tuner told Gray that the rebellion was a sign from God, and that it was put in his heart to attack and kill those people. “…that the Spirit appeared to me and said I had my wishes directed to the things of this world, and not to the kingdom of Heaven, and that I should return to the service of my earthly master”(Gray 10). Here Tuner is saying in order to get what he have been praying for
The details that were explained the weapons that were used couldn’t have been known to the public unless one he men apart of the rebellion had told them. The confessions of Nat Turner is true. The documentary Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property also proved that the Confessions had some truth in them. Because most of the historians believed this event actually did happen, and that the details in the Confession couldn’t have been made up, simply because of their acknowledgement on what actually happen. Then the confessions have some alive witnesses to prove that it really happen and that Nat and his men committed theses gruesome