“I raise my eyes upward. There alone amidst the blue, steadfast, unmoving, fiery marvel of brightness, shines the morning star. Never has that star seemed so radiant, and I stand gazing at it and do not move though the chill of the damp floor imprisons my feet in piercing icebound pain.
Surely I come quickly …”

Part IV : "It Is Done…"
The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967)

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American novelist and essayist 1925–2006

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