025. Unconquered + Nat Turner

This episode we look at two starkly different takes on historical fiction. Unconquered is a Technicolor epic from 1947 directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard. This film represents an extremely Anglo-centric history of the United States, ostensibly telling the story of Pontiac's War from the perspective of a frontiersman and an indentured servant. Nat Turner is a four issue mini series written and drawn by Professor Kyle Baker about a violent slave uprising led by the titular enslaved man turned violent revolutionary and messiah. Nat Turner is both historically accurate and emotionally searing on a technical and thematic level. 

Music is by Free Rap Beats. 

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Topics for this episode include Unconquered, Nat Turner, Sign of the Cross and The Nightingale.