Since Styron grew up in the Tidewater region in Virginia, where Nat Turn er's 1831 slave rebellion took place, and came from a family who at one time owned slaves, he was always aware that someday he would write about the all-engulfing issues of race, slavery, and the polarized society they produced. In the 1960s issues of racism.....
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