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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. (15[1])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 in a novel whose influential prologue describes a (*) “real maravilloso (“mah-rah-vee-YOH-so”).” The role of Macandal in one of these events differs through depictions in The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier and C. L. R. James’s The Black Jacobins. For 10 points, a fictional narrative of what type of event is central to William Styron’s novel The Confessions of Nat Turner? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: slave revolts [or slave rebellions, slave uprisings, slave revolutions, slave insurrections, or equivalents; accept the Haitian Revolution] (The second sentence refers to The Book of Night Women by Marlon James.)
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Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordNorth Carolina AVirginia Tech A5315
Max KurzmanNorth Carolina BSouth Carolina14610
Orion KellerVirginia Tech BVirginia Tech C14610

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