Dr. Vanessa Holden from the University of Kentucky will speak at Mississippi College as part of MC’s continued effort to bring lived and scholarly expertise of the African American experience to the Mississippi College campus and the larger metro Jackson community. She is an associate professor of History, the Director of African American and Africana Studies and the Director of the Central Kentucky Slavery Initiative. Her research focuses on African American women and slavery in the antebellum South. She will share her award-winning research from her book Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community (University of Illinois Press, July 2021), which explores the contributions that African American women and children made to the Southampton Rebellion, often called Nat Turner’s Rebellion. Holden’s lecture will serve as the keynote for our Black History month commemorations.
The lecture will be on February 6, 2025 at 6pm in Aven Hall on Mississippi College’s campus.
