Nat Turner's Community (1831) w/ Vanessa Holden [[Archive Episode]]
This Day in Esoteric Political History
Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia
4.6 • 982 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
On Sundays this summer, we’re bringing you some of our favorite episodes from the archives. We’ll continue to do new episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Happy summer!
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It’s August 22nd. This day in 1831, Nathaniel “Nat” Turner is leading a rebellion in Southampton, Virginia — what would become perhaps the most famous slave revolt in the Antebellum South. But there’s a hidden story.
Jody, Niki, and Kellie are joined by Vanessa Holden of the University of Kentucky to discuss how it was the larger community in Southampton, particularly women, who made the rebellion possible.
Vanessa is the author of Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner's Community — find it wherever you get your books!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone Jody Avigan here on Sundays over the course of the summer July and August |
| 0:04.4 | We're going to be bringing you some of our favorite episodes from the Archives |
| 0:07.8 | You're still going to get brand new episodes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but we're giving ourselves a little bit of a break on Sundays running a previous episode. |
| 0:15.4 | It's still from around the same date, so it will still hook in in that way. |
| 0:19.6 | But look, we've done about 450 of these. |
| 0:22.1 | There's a good chance you haven't heard this one or haven't heard |
| 0:24.5 | it in a while and might want to re-listen. So here we go with a Sunday favorite from the |
| 0:29.8 | Archives. |
| 0:30.8 | Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from |
| 0:34.9 | Radiotopia my name is Jody Avregand. This day August 22nd 1831 in |
| 0:42.3 | Southampton County, Virginia, a two-day rebellion is taking place |
| 0:46.3 | led by Nathaniel Nat Turner. Turner's rebellion is one of the most notable and |
| 0:51.1 | consequential slave revolts in this era. |
| 0:53.6 | This is actually our first time talking about Nat Turner on the show, |
| 0:56.1 | so we will talk a little bit about Nat Turner, |
| 0:58.5 | but we also think that there are parts of this story that are less covered |
| 1:01.9 | or less remembered. |
| 1:03.1 | So here to discuss the Nat Turner Rebellion, the wrinkles |
| 1:07.1 | that add some complexity to the story |
| 1:09.2 | are, as always, Nicole Hammer of Columbia |
| 1:11.5 | and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley. Hello there. |
| 1:14.0 | Hello Jody. Hey there. And also joining us our special guest for this |
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