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First Name
Vanessa
Last Name
Holden
Affiliation
University of Kentucky
Website URL
vanessamholden.squarespace.com
Keywords
slavery, women, gender, sexuality, children, resistance, rebellion, Virginia, antebellum, southern, south, sex, sexuality, lgbtq, queer, same-gender loving
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About Me

Vanessa M. Holden an assistant professor of History and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Holden’s current book project, tentatively titled, Surviving Southampton: Gender, Community, Resistance and Survival During the Southampton Rebellion of 1831(University of Illinois Press), 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. Dr. Holden’s work and writing have 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. She also blogs for The Junto: A Group Blog on American History and Black PerspectivesIn 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 University). Her second project, Forming Intimacies: Queer Kinship and Resistance in the Antebellum American Atlantic, will focus on same-gender loving individuals and American slavery. Follow her on Twitter @drvholden

 

 

Recent Publications
Media Coverage
Country Focus
United States
Expertise by Geography
Atlantic, United States
Expertise by Chronology
18th century, 19th century
Expertise by Topic
Family, Gender, Race, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Slavery, Women