Surviving Southampton
African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community
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Surviving Southampton
African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community
About This Book
The local community around the Nat Turner rebellion The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turner involved an entire community. Vanessa M. Holden rediscovers the women and children, free and enslaved, who lived in Southampton County before, during, and after the revolt. Mapping the region's multilayered human geography, Holden draws a fuller picture of the inhabitants, revealing not only their interactions with physical locations but also their social relationships in space and time. Her analysis recasts the Southampton Rebellion as one event that reveals the continuum of practices that sustained resistance and survival among local Black people. Holden follows how African Americans continued those practices through the rebellion's immediate aftermath and into the future, showing how Black women and communities raised children who remembered and heeded the lessons absorbed during the calamitous events of 1831.
A bold challenge to traditional accounts, Surviving Southampton sheds new light on the places and people surrounding Americas most famous rebellion against slavery.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Authorâs Note on Language and Sources
- Prologue
- Introduction
- 1 Geographies of Surveillance and Control
- 2 Enslaved Women and Strategies of Evasion and Resistance
- 3 Free Issues: Free People of Color in Antebellum Southampton County
- 4 Generation, Resistance, and Survival: African American Children and the Southampton Rebellion
- 5 Surviving Southampton: Geographies of Survival
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- Back Cover