Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
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Directed by Charles Burnett • 2003 • United States
Starring Carl Lumbly, Tommy Hicks, James Opher
Nat Turner’s slave rebellion is a watershed event in America’s long and troubled history of slavery and racial conflict. NAT TURNER: A TROUBLESOME PROPERTY tells the story of that violent confrontation and of the ways that story has been continuously retold during the years since 1831. To emphasize the fictive aspect of historical reconstruction, the film adopts an innovative structure: interspersing documentary footage and interviews with dramatizations of different versions of the story, using a new actor to represent Nat Turner in each version. As literary critic Henry Louis Gates explains in the film, “There is no Nat Turner to recover; you have to create the man and his voice.”
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