Birth of a Nation: Nat Turner and the Making of a Movement

Parker is the producer, director, and star of the 2016 film that ironically bears the same name as the famous 1915 D.W. Griffith Civil War movie. This audiobook is the official tie-in to Parker’s film. His diction is precise, his reading clear, and his passionate attachment to resistance against oppression always in evidence. In the first half, he reads his essay explaining his lifelong fascination with Nat Turner, who exemplifies, for Parker, the defiant attitude and conduct of certain 19th-century slaves—an attitude that he believes is evident today in the Black Lives Matter movement. In the second half, Parker reads essays by others exploring the historical context of Turner’s slave rebellion and its relevance to contemporary events and discourse. [em]A 37Ink hardcover. (Oct.) [/em]