America's longest siege : Charleston, slavery, and the slow march toward Civil War
Title:
America's longest siege : Charleston, slavery, and the slow march toward Civil War
Charleston, slavery, and the slow march toward Civil War
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Publication Date as Range:
2013
ISBN:
9781590207192
Physical Description:
384 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents:
The Stono Rebellion -- The good slave trader -- Liberty for some -- We the aristocrats -- The Denmark Vesey Rebellion -- The first secession -- The police state -- The lost generation -- War.
Abstract:
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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