America’s longest siege : Charleston, slavery, and the slow march toward Civil War / Joseph Kelly.

Kelly, Joseph, 1962- author.
New York, NY : The Overlook Press, 2013.
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Notes:

  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-375) and index.
  • The Stono Rebellion — The good slave trader — We the petty tyrants — We the aristocrats — The Denmark Vesey Rebellion — The first secession — The police state — The lost generation — War.
  • An account of the two hundred-year practice of slavery in Charleston examines its hotly contested debates and early slave rebellions through the Nullification crisis and the secession that sparked the Civil War.

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