Another look at Nat Turner: An Amherst writer shopped his own screenplay to Hollywood about the pivotal 1831 slave uprising

By STEVE PFARRER For years, Greg Oates had thought the slave uprising led by Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831 would make for a moving and riveting film.In fact, he’d thought that ever since, as a teenager, he read “The Fires of Jubilee,” the book his...

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