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Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2003)
Spends too much time on specious sources and not enough on the historical record.
3 January 2022 - 1 out of 1 users found this review helpful.
This documentary is plagued by flawed historical methodology and too much emphasis on historical re-enactment a la History Channel. The directors time would have been much better spent taking a historiographical approach instead of cheap and questionable dramatizations. Do we really care so much about Thomas Gray's veracity? The man was more than likely simply a scoundrel seeking to exploit Nat Turners's story to salvage his own self-inflicted financial bankruptcy.
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