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

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

Summary
"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 mul... Read more
Contents
Introduction: 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... Read more
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xiv, 160 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press 2021

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 306.3 HOL in Adult Non-fiction Available

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