Question

Those who ate too much salt are unable to fly away in the aftermath of one of these events, like Uncle Bango’s ancestor did with two corn cobs tucked beneath his arms, in Salt by Earl Lovelace. In a different novel, Lilith is wary of the title “Night Women” planning one of these events. A “Lord of Poison” plans one of these events to start with the sounds of blown conch shells. Monsieur Lenormand de Mezy hides in a well during one of these events (-5[1])in a novel whose influential prologue describes a (*) “real maravilloso.” The role of Macandal in one of these events differs through depictions in The Kingdom of This World (-5[1])by Alejo Carpentier and C. L. R. James’s The Black Jacobins. For 10 points, a fictional narrative of what type of event (10[1])is central to William Styron’s novel The Confessions of Nat Turner? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: slave revolt [or slave rebellion, slave uprising, slave revolution, slave insurrection, or equivalents; accept the Haitian Revolution] (The second sentence refers to The Book of Night Women by Marlon James.)
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Michael HundingIllinois OrangeNotre Dame112-5
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John MarvinChicago AIllinois Blue14510
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