One of these events is the subject of Arna Bontemps’ novel Black Thunder. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this kind of event. During one of these events in a novel, the protagonist is coerced into killing Margaret Whitehead by the ax-wielding Will.
ANSWER: slave revolts [accept slave rebellions or other clear synonyms; prompt on revolt, rebellion, insurrection, or mutiny by asking, “Of what people?”]
[10e] William Styron’s novel The Confessions of Nat Turner was based on the similarly-named firsthand account written by an attorney with this first and last name. A poet with this first and last name wrote “An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.”
ANSWER: Thomas Gray [prompt on partial; accept Thomas Ruffin Gray]
[10m] This author of the poem “The Ballad of Nat Turner” and “Those Winter Sundays” repeated the line “Voyage through death to life upon these shores” in his poem “Middle Passage.”
ANSWER: Robert Hayden [or Asa Bundy Sheffey]
<MM, American Literature>