Urban Life Experience Book Discussion Series

 Nat Turner, Black Prophet: A Visionary History by Anthony E. Kaye with Gregory P. Downs 2024 Notes from book discussion of Nat Turner: Black Prophet: A Visionary History by Anthony E. Kaye with Gregory P. Downs 2024     Ten of us met on July 26, 2025, to discuss Nat Turner: Black Prophet. The research for the book was all conducted by Anthony E. Kaye, but unfortunately, he passed away before the book was complete. Gregory P. Downs finished the manuscript after Kaye’s death, emphasizing that (p.263), “For Nat and for some of his followers, the reason for hope was not a liberal revolutionary American tradition or even a timeless Black nationalism but something more peculiar, Nat’s religious beliefs.”   Anthony E. Kaye (left) researched and authored the book but passed away before publication. Gregory P. Downs completed the manuscript and readied it for publication This book emphasizes how Nat was brought up in a small rural household where he and his parents were e...