The Denmark Vesey Affair

A Documentary History

858 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In 1822, thirty-four slaves and their leader, a free black man named Denmark Vesey, were tried and executed for their alleged plot to murder the white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina. Presenting a vast collection of contemporary documents that support or contradict the “official” story, the editors of this volume annotate the texts and interpret the evidence. This is the definitive account of a landmark event that spurred the South to secession and holds symbolic meaning today—as evidenced by the 2015 shooting that took place in Emanuel AME Church, a church Vesey had attended. This volume argues that the Vesey plot was one of the most sophisticated acts of collective slave resistance in the history of the United States.

• ISBN: 9780813062822
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.03.2017
• Größe: 254 x 178 mm
• Verlag: University Press of Florida
• Herausgegeben von: Robert L Paquette, Douglas R Egerton