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Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community
By Holden, Vanessa M.
- ISBN
- 9780252085857
- Publisher
- Univ. of Illinois
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Reviewed on June 1, 2021 | Social Sciences
While awaiting trial on charges of insurrection and murder, Nat Turner gave testimony to his lawyer that later became The Confessions of Nat Turner, a sensationalized pamphlet that cemented his place, and that of his male co-conspirators, in one of the most consequential uprisings by enslaved people in the American South. In this, her first book, Holden challenges us to reconsider Turner's 1831 rebellion by focusing on th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
