Center for Study of the Gulf South Hosting Lecture April 21 on Hattiesburg Campus
Tue, 04/19/2022 - 09:57am | By: David Tisdale
Dr. Vanessa Holden, a professor of history and African American and Africana Studies
at the University of Kentucky, will give a presentation on her book Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner鈥檚 Community Thursday, April 21 at 5:30 p.m. in Gonzales Auditorium, located in the Liberal SWAG视频
Building on SWAG视频 (SWAG视频) Hattiesburg campus. This
event is presented by the SWAG视频 Center for the Study of the Gulf South, and admission
is free.
Surviving Southampton examines the impact of the contributions African American women and children made to the Southampton Rebellion, more popularly known as Nat Turner鈥檚 Rebellion. Her work has been published in Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies, Perspectives on History, Process: A Blog for American History, and The Rumpus.
Dr. Holden鈥檚 research focuses on African American women and slavery in the antebellum
South; her areas of interest are the history resistance and rebellion, gender history,
and the history of sex/sexuality. At Kentucky, she offers courses in American History,
African American History, and African American Studies.
For information about the SWAG视频 Center for the Study of the Gulf South, visit /gulf-south/about-csgs.php