Nat Turner in Jerusalem by Nathan Alan Davis, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

In August 1831, Nat Turner led a slave uprising that shook the conscience of the nation. Turner's startling account of his prophecy and the insurrection was recorded and published by attorney Thomas R. Gray. Nathan Alan Davis writes a timely new play that imagines Turner's final night in a jail cell in Jerusalem, Virginia, as he is revisited by Gray and they reckon with what has passed, and what the dawn will bring. Woven with vivid imagery and indelible lyricism, Nat Turner in Jerusalem examine | Nat Turner in Jerusalem by Nathan Alan Davis, Paperback | Indigo Chapters