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Surviving Southampton : African American women and resistance in Nat Turner's community /

"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 f...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Holden, Vanessa M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
Series:Women, gender, and sexuality in American history.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • An intimate rebellion
  • Geographies of surveillance and control
  • Enslaved women and strategies of evasion and resistance
  • Free issues : Free people of color in Antebellum Southampton County
  • Generation, resistance, and survival : African American children and the Southampton Rebellion
  • Surviving Southampton : Geographies of survival.