Since the economic situation in the South has turned and prices for crops are poor, many slave owners have problems feeding their slaves and fear revolts. Nat and Cherry fall in love, marry, and conceive a daughter. He convinces Samuel to buy her as a wedding gift for Catherine Turner, Samuel's sister. During a slave auction, Nat is immediately smitten by one of the female slaves for sale, Cherry. Samuel Turner, Benjamin's son, inherits ownership of the plantation. Now an adult, Nat is still picking cotton, but he also preaches and reads Scripture for his fellow slaves on the plantation. But shortly before Benjamin dies, presumably of tuberculosis, he orders his wife to stop teaching Nat and send him to work as a farmhand. Elizabeth even goes so far as to have Nat read Scripture during church gatherings. Most of her lessons center around the Bible. When Elizabeth Turner, Benjamin's wife, notices that Nat has basic reading skills, she starts to teach him reading, hoping that he can be helpful in the household with his knowledge. When Cobb arrives and questions Isaac's family about his whereabouts, nobody says anything and Benjamin Turner, the owner of the farm, intervenes and drives Cobb off before he turns violent. He then returns home, tells his family what happened and says that he has to leave immediately, but not without speaking to Nat once more, insisting that Nat is "a child of God" and has a purpose. When Cobb tries to execute him, Isaac turns the tables, kills one member of the posse, and flees.
On the road, Isaac is caught by a posse led by slave-catcher Raymond Cobb. The adult slaves have little food for their children, and Nat's father Isaac slips out one night to steal something for his son to eat. In 1809, on a plantation in Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turner is a pre-teen slave boy. ( October 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. While Parker was acquitted and Celestin was not retried after his conviction was overturned on appeal, the controversy surrounding the alleged rape and Parker's initial responses to the controversy cast a shadow over the film.
The film was theatrically released in the United States on October 7, 2016, and grossed $16 million, receiving positive reviews from critics, with praise for its directing, acting, soundtrack, and cinematography.īecause The Birth of a Nation attracted increased attention during its festival run, there was significant press coverage of a 1999 alleged rape that Parker and co-story writer Jean McGianni Celestin were accused of having committed, and the fact that the accuser committed suicide in 2012. The Birth of a Nation premiered in competition at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, where Fox Searchlight Pictures bought worldwide rights to the film in a $17.5 million deal (at the time the largest deal at the festival), and won the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize in the U.S.
The film's title is an ironic callback to the 1915 KKK-focused silent film. Parker also petitioned financiers to invest in the film, ultimately getting an $8.5 million production budget, and started filming in May 2015 in Georgia. The film stars Parker as Turner, with Armie Hammer, Mark Boone Jr., Colman Domingo, Aunjanue Ellis, Dwight Henry, Aja Naomi King, Esther Scott, Roger Guenveur Smith, Gabrielle Union, Penelope Ann Miller, and Jackie Earle Haley in supporting roles. It is based on the story of Nat Turner, the enslaved man who led a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831. The Birth of a Nation is a 2016 American period drama film written and directed by Nate Parker in his directorial debut.
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