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Denmark Vesey's Revolt : The Slave Plot That Lit a Fuse to Fort Sumter /

In 1822, Denmark Vesey was found guilty of plotting an insurrection--what would have been the biggest slave uprising in U.S. history. A free man of color, he was hanged along with 34 other African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, in what historians agree was probably the largest civil execut...

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Main Author: Lofton, John
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo

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