HISTORY/ AFRICAN AMERICAN

Surviving Southampton African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community

Vanessa M. Holden Rediscovers the women and children, free and enslaved, who lived in Southampton County before, during, and after the 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turner. Revealing 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 volume in the series Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History

Pub July 2021. 6 x 9 in. 184 pp. University of Illinois Press 978-0-252-08585-7 Paper, $22.95 ; 978-0-252-05276-7 eBook, $14.95