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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Langue: | Inglés |
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Kent, Ohio :
The Kent State University Press,
[2013]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- A key port
- Slavery in the islands
- Slave life at sea
- Slave city in a free republic
- Burden bearers in South Carolina
- Seeds of insurrection
- The half-free community
- Mainstream of reaction
- Eddies of revolution
- Preparing the ground
- The hour for revolt
- Rebels on trial
- The harvest of fears
- A fuse to Fort Sumter.