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The Resurrection of Nat Turner, Part One: The Witnesses by Sharon Ewell Foster is a fact-based epic that discredits the primary historical source document on Nat Turner, The Confessions of Nat Turner, a pamphlet published in 1831 by Turner's believed lawyer Thomas Gray-later turned into a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by William Styron. That document stated that Turner gave a statement of guilt to Gray, which was then read before the court.

Foster located the original handwritten trial transcript