Surviving Southampton

African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community

Bibliographic Data

ID20018435
AuthorsVanessa M Holden (corresponding author)
Year2021
Pages184
Publication date2021-06-15
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueSurviving Southampton (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5622/illinois/9780252043864.001.0001
OpenAlexW4205370092
ISBN9780252043864
Open LibraryOL34688004M
LanguageEN
Citations received10

The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turner included an entire community involved in resistance efforts that led to, and learned from, what happened. Surviving Southampton rediscovers the enslaved women and children and free people of color who lived in Southampton County before, during, and after the insurrection. Mapping the region's multilayered human geography, it draws a fuller picture of the inhabitants, revealing not only their interactions with physical locations but also their social relationships in space and time. Vanessa Holden’s analysis recasts the Southampton Rebellion as one event on a continuum of practices that sustained resistance and survival among local people of color. The book then follows those practices into the future, showing how Southampton’s women, and community, 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 a momentous event in American history

Event (particle physics) · Genealogy · Resistance (ecology) · American Environmental and Regional History · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Australian History and Society · History · 1831 · America · Child slaves · Slavery · Southampton Insurrection · Women slaves

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