Analysis Of Remembering Nat Turner By Sterling Allen Brown

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The text is a poem called “Remembering Nat Turner”, written by Sterling Allen Brown. The poem is about an African American who walks the route of the slave rebellion of 1831, where he is given impressions about the rebellion from black and white people. The poem is a part of his first collection called Southern Road, which was first published in 1932. The original reader of Sterling Brown’s Southern Road. The author was born in Washington D.C. on May 1, 1901. Later, he received a bachelor’s degree from Williams College where he studied traditional literature and explored music like Jazz and the Blues; then had gotten his masters at Harvard. The author is a professor of African American English at Harvard University. The author’s writing

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