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Woodcut from the book “Authentic and Impartial Narrative of the Tragical Scene Which Was Witnessed in Southampton County.” Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in 1831 in Southampton County, Virginia. Dozens of people were killed. More were killed in the aftermath, including Turner who was hanged. That much is agreed upon, but nearly everything else about the rebellion is hotly debated or represented through politics and art, said Dr. Linda Watts, professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences<\/a> at the University of Washington Bothell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have almost nothing that comes directly from Nat Turner. We see him refracted through other people\u2019s accounts,\u201d said Watts, who is teaching a course called, Remembering Nat Turner: Studies in Historical Memory and Representation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watts challenges her students to become historical detectives. 足彩app哪个是正规的y not only investigate the historic situation, they also analyze its implications in artists\u2019 imaginations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPlaywrights, poets and novelists, artists, rappers and spoken word artists, dramatists all continue to retell the story of Nat Turner,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Historian\u2019s dilemma<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Linda Watts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Bridging the social sciences and humanities, the Nat Turner slave rebellion is a good subject for Discovery Core<\/a>, a program at UW Bothell that helps first-year students transition to college, learn the University\u2019s multi-discipline approach and consider other fields before they decide on a major.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watts, who has been at UW Bothell since 1999, has also taught versions of the Nat Turner Rebellion in higher-level courses. It\u2019s a historian\u2019s dilemma, she said: How do you tell that story properly, responsibly, accurately? How do you tell a story of enslaved people when they were often denied literacy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching the subject to Discovery Core students is an added attraction for Watts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI love the way that brand-new undergraduates are maybe a little timid but very game,\u201d Watts said. \u201c足彩app哪个是正规的y\u2019re willing to try something.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In contrast to a survey course that slogs through a broad swath of history, Watts is teaching history using a case-study method \u2014 and sticking a pin in the map at Southampton, Virginia. She focuses on one incident and the repercussions; 1831 is the entire timeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou can get to know quite a lot about history by looking at one pivotal moment,\u201d Watts said. \u201cIt\u2019s like a stone in the water and the ripples out from that stone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rebellion, insurrection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This winter quarter course about the Nat Turner rebellion started the same week as violent protesters broke into the Capitol in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is the first time I\u2019ve taught it coincident with a U.S. insurrection,\u201d said Watts. \u201cThat gave it a different charge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former students Watts taught also mentioned Nat Turner when commenting on social media about the violence in the nation\u2019s capital, she said, adding it was gratifying to know that work they had done as long as 15 years ago was still a reference for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c足彩app哪个是正规的 Nat Turner course gives people a way to think about culture that is very focused on questions that are live questions for them,\u201d Watts said. \u201cWe end up talking about whether violence is ever warranted, as a first step or as a response to violence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

足彩app哪个是正规的 class also prompts students to discuss the agency of enslaved people and how they resisted the conditions of a society in which they had the legal standing of property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

足彩app哪个是正规的 period before the Civil War echoes modern times as people try to make sense of division and dissent, said Watts, noting that in his inaugural address Joe Biden said, \u201cEnd this uncivil war.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Changing perspectives<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Alumna Marya Dominik (Society, Ethics & Human Behavior \u201906) says Nat Turner was one of the first courses she took at UW Bothell, and she remembers how it changed her perspective on slavery and emancipation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c足彩app哪个是正规的 course really opened my eyes about what I did not know, and of course made me do some self-reflection on why I allowed myself to have such a limited view of what had happened,\u201d said Dominik, who remains in contact with Watts on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dominik said Watts encouraged students in the class to notice what isn\u2019t in the historical records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJust like the stats course at UW Bothell has me looking at data in news articles with a critical eye, the Nat Turner course taught me to look for what they leave out and to really dig deep and question why,\u201d Dominik said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

足彩app哪个是正规的 events of Jan. 6 brought the course back to mind for Dominik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen the attack happened, I was really uncomfortable with the term insurrection being used by the press,\u201d she said. \u201cI realized that I think of Nat Turner\u2019s insurrection as fighting for good, and I could not view what the people who attacked our democracy were doing as anything good.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A place of possibility<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In spring quarter, Watts will be teaching another Discovery Core course, Reading and Writing: 足彩app哪个是正规的 Literature of Social Engagement. It\u2019s another example of understanding complex events through the humanities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although intended for first-year students, Discovery Core courses are open to all majors, Watts said. \u201cIt\u2019s a place of possibility.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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