 | Hill Peebles Wilson - 1913 - 464 halaman
...October 2d. Turner became a preacher, and later, saw visions. He saw visions of conflicts "between white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle;...thunder rolled in the heavens, and blood flowed in the streams. . ." Afterward he had another vision in which an angel told him that "the time is fast... | |
 | August Meier, Elliott Rudwick - 1976 - 422 halaman
...instrument to deliver the race from bondage, had innumerable visions, one of which he described in this way: "I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in...rolled in the heavens, and blood flowed in streams. . . ." Later, he became certain that God had instructed him to "arise and prepare myself, and slay... | |
 | Donald G. Mathews - 1977 - 295 halaman
...The sun was darkened , ' ' Turner recalled , "and blood flowed in streams." And then came the voice: "Such is your luck, such you are called to see, and let it come rough or smooth, you must surely bare it. ' ' "Such is your luck! " — the words came not only from God, but from Africa, whose western... | |
 | Lawrence W. Levine - 1978 - 546 halaman
...hands of the Almighty." This conviction grew with the years: And about this time I had a vision— and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle,...rolled in the Heavens, and blood flowed in streams . . . while laboring in the field, I discovered drops of blood on the corn as though it were dew from... | |
 | Charles T. Davis, Henry Louis Gates Jr. - 1991 - 385 halaman
...communed with the Spirit and returned with the fresh assurance that his struggle had divine sanction: ... I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle,...the sun was darkened— the thunder rolled in the heaven, and blood flowed in streams— and I heard a voice saying, "Such is your luck, such you are... | |
 | Melvin Dixon - 1987 - 206 halaman
...woods where he communed with the Spirit and received assurance that his struggle had divine sanction: "I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in...the sun was darkened — the thunder rolled in the heaven, and blood flowed in streams — and I heard a voice saying. 'Such is your luck. such you are... | |
 | Terry Bisson - 1989 - 188 halaman
...liberation. "I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle," he cried out from the pulpit. "And the sun was darkened— the thunder rolled in the heavens and the blood flowed in streams— and I heard a voice saying, 'Such is your luck, such are you called... | |
 | William W. Freehling - 1990 - 660 halaman
...mind had been savouring the Holy Spirit. This domestic servant came to his mission after a vision "of white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle,...thunder rolled in the Heavens, and blood flowed in the streams." At first Nat Turner thought the white's anniversary of freedom was the appropriate day... | |
 | Leon F. Litwack, August Meier - 1988 - 364 halaman
...of his mother) that he was destined for some great purpose. "I had a vision," he explained, "—and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle,...rolled in the Heavens, and blood flowed in streams." Not long after that Nat "discovered drops of blood on the corn as though it were dew from heaven,"... | |
 | Abu Shardow Abarry - 1996 - 852 halaman
...had my sense they would not serve any master in the world. And about this time I had a vision — and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle,...see, and let it come rough or smooth, you must surely bare it." I now withdrew myself as much as my situation would permit, from the intercourse of my fellow... | |
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And the negroes found fault, and murmurred against me, saying that if they had my sense they would not serve any master in the world. And about this time I had a vision— and I saw white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle, and the sun was darkened—... 
