Dr. Holden an assistant professor of History and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Holden’s current book project is titled, SurvivingSouthampton: Gender, Community, Resistance, and Survival During the Southampton Rebellion of 1831. In it, Dr. Holden explores the contributions that African American women and children, free and enslaved, made to the Southampton Rebellion of 1831, also called Nat Turner’s Rebellion. In addition to her work on enslaved women and slave rebellion, Dr.Holden also co-organizes the Queering Slavery Working Group with Jessica Marie Johnson (Johns Hopkins). Her second project, Forming Intimacies: Queer Kinship and Resistance in the Antebellum American Atlantic, will focus on same-gender loving individuals and American slavery., University of Kentucky
Dr. Holden an assistant professor of History and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Holden's current book project is titled, SurvivingSouthampton: Gender, Community, Resistance, and Survival During the Southampton Rebellion of 1831. In it, Dr...
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