The book that put Nat Turner on the cover of
Newsweek magazine in the autumn of 1967 had its origins in the oral and written traditions of Tidewater Virginia. Styron traced his interest in the subject of slavery to the stories his grandmother who had owned slaves told him as a child growing up in Newport News. He first read about Nat Turner in a grammar school textbook in the mid-1930s. After reading the original “Confessions” late in the 1940s, Styron began to consider the possibilities of a novel. He gathered source materials and pitched the idea to his editor early in the 1950s. He started writing (and even drafted an outline for an original Hollywood screenplay) early in the 1960s. By the time
Bourne-area family s lasting dog theft heartbreak
| Updated: 16:44, 08 March 2021
A family who had four dogs taken from them have spoken of the heartbreak caused by dog thefts.
Margaret Whitehead has spoken of her familyâs devastation after the their four Welsh terriers were stolen from their kennels in Bourne in November.
The family, including Margaretâs mother Debbie Graham, who is desperate to find the dogs, havenât given up hope of one day being able to find their beloved pets but the uncertainty is taking its toll.
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Margaret said: âThe worst part is not knowing where they are or if they are okay.
The Confessions of Nat Turner. According to
The Confessions, Turner was born into slavery on a Southampton plantation on October 2, 1800. He could read and write, which was unusual for an enslaved person of that time and place, and he owned a Bible. He had a family, including a grandmother to whom he was “much attached”; a father who escaped slavery; and a wife and son, who lived on a neighboring farm. He was deeply religious, “devoting [his] time to fasting and prayer,” and experienced private revelations in which “the Spirit that spoke to the prophets in former days” spoke to him. When he was in his twenties, Turner ran away from his overseer. He was gone for a month, returning only, he said, at the spirit’s urging.
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The day Richard Ackers brought a Labrador Retriever puppy home to his family in Wigan was one of the best of his life. The tiny dog, named Reggie, arrived on December 17 and delighted in following his new owners around room to room, begging for cuddles and playing with Ackers’ seven-year-old son for hours on end.
But that same evening, Reggie fell gravely ill. First he had a bad bout of diarrhoea, and then the next morning, he became lethargic and started vomiting. “He was dragging himself around the house. Then in the afternoon, he just slumped down on the couch and wasn’t moving,” Ackers says.
Plea to reunite family with dogs stolen from Bourne
| Updated: 17:20, 14 January 2021
A family in Bourne has issued a plea to help find their dogs, which were stolen from their home.
The four Welsh Terriers â Winnie, RC, Queenie and Pussy â were taken from a property in Spalding Road on November 18.
Two chainsaws and a DeWalt collated screw gun were also taken in the burglary.
Four Welsh terriers were stolen from Bourne
Margaret Whitehead, the dogsâ owner, said: âItâs really horrible.
âWe donât know if they are alive, if they are together or whether they are still in the country.