The local community around the Nat Turner
rebellion 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 fuller picture of the
inhabitants, revealing not only their interactions with physical
locations but also their social relationships in space and time.
Her analysis recasts the Southampton Rebellion as one event that
reveals 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 bold challenge to traditional accounts, Surviving
Southampton sheds new light on the places and people
surrounding Americas most famous rebellion against slavery.
Breaking the deadlock on ivory Biggs, Duan; Holden, Matthew H.; Braczkowski, Alex ...
Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science),
12/2017, Letnik:
358, Številka:
6369
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
An iterative process that recognizes different value systems may help to protect elephants
Poaching for ivory has caused a steep decline in African elephant (
Loxodonta africana
, see the photo) ...populations over the past decade (
1
). This crisis has fueled a contentious global debate over which ivory policy would best protect elephants: banning all ivory trade or enabling regulated trade to incentivize and fund elephant conservation (
2
). The deep-seated deadlock on ivory policy consumes valuable resources and creates an antagonistic environment among elephant conservationists. Successful solutions must begin by recognizing the different values that influence stakeholder cognitive frameworks of how actions lead to outcomes (“mental models”) (
3
), and therefore their diverging positions on ivory trade (
4
). Based on successful conflict resolution in other areas, we propose an iterative process through which countries with wild elephant populations may be able to understand their differences and develop workable solutions in a less confrontational manner.
The Southampton Rebellion of 1831, Nat Turner's Rebellion, stands as the most famous slave rebellion in American History. Historians have studied the rebellion extensively often focusing on Turner's ...biography, the incident's violent sequence of events, and the wide social, cultural, and political impact of the rebellion. The most recent scholarship on the Southampton Rebellion focuses on the wider community that produced the violent event that resulted in the death of nearly 60 whites and an uncountable number of people of color. African-American children made up a significant demographic in antebellum Southampton. They were present everywhere, just as children were present in most antebellum communities. Yet their appearances in the trial records associated with the Southampton Rebellion are all but unstudied. The Southampton Rebellion was not the result of Nat Turner's singular genius focused on immediate results. It was a rebellion constituted in the community with future liberation in mind. Children, the literal embodiment of slavery's future, then were necessarily included and involved. This article engages the extensive court documents associated with the Southampton Rebellion's aftermath to investigate the possible role of children in the rebellion and their significance to the resistance of enslaved communities.
Response-Ivory crisis Biggs, Duan; Smith, Robert J; Adams, Vanessa M ...
Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science),
04/2018, Letnik:
360, Številka:
6386
Journal Article
A woodpile could be a place to lay low and avoid detection just as soon as it could be the site of a beating. A kitchen could be a warm place to rest and a site of abusive management by white ...enslavers. A field gang could slow their progress between the same rows in which an enslaver extracted the brutal labor of cotton culture from enslaved hands. Geographies of control and resistance overlapped in antebellum Southampton County. Accessing the lives of Southampton’s enslaved population requires a different reading of available documentation. The voices of white interviewers, the court clerk, enslavers,
Surviving Southampton Holden, Vanessa M
Surviving Southampton,
07/2021, Letnik:
1
Book Chapter
By the end of 1831, local officials had executed eighteen enslaved men and one enslaved woman: Daniel, Moses, Nat, Nelson, Hark, Davy, Sam, Nathan, Jack, Joe, Lucy, Davy, Dred, Curtis, Stephen, Ben, ...Sam, and Nat Turner. They’d asked the governor to sell Andrew, Isaac, Jack, Nathan, Tom, Davy, Hardy, Isham, and Moses out of the state. Add to that the twenty-two extralegal killings that included putting heads at the crossroads long known as Black Head Signpost.¹ Death enveloped the county. There is no limit to bereavement, no moment when a person stops surviving the dead. The militia response, the trials,
The heat of a Southside August was kind to cotton and nothing else. The only other living things that looked forward to the heat were preachers; it was sitting-in season for the white folk who could ...travel to revivals. They would wait on the Lord and wait for the king, king cotton, to burst open, make his presence known, and demand more tribute in sweat and scars. The white fluffy wealth was all over the county. Some big men had vast fields, while many others had patches here and there. In the heat and the foggy haze of swampy humidity,
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