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Denmark Vesey Affair

- A Documentary History

Forfatter: info mangler
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  • Engelsk
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A vast collection of documents that illuminate one of the mostsophisticated acts of collective slave resistance in the history of the U.S.In1822, thirty-four slaves and their leader, a free black man named DenmarkVesey, were tried and executed for attempting to raise aninsurrection in Charleston, South Carolina. InThe Denmark Vesey Affair,Douglas Egerton and Robert Paquette annotate and interpret a vast collection ofcontemporary documents that illuminate and contextualize this complicated saga,providing the definitive account of a landmark event that played a role in thenations path to Civil War. The editors ultimately argue that the Vesey plotwas one of the most sophisticated acts of collective slave resistance in thehistory of the United States.A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and RandallM. MillerPublication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustainingthe Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the NationalEndowment for the Humanities.

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