America's longest siege : Charleston, slavery, and the slow march toward Civil War / Joseph Kelly.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, NY The Overlook Press 2013Description: 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781590207192 (hbk.)
- 159020719X (hbk.)
- Charleston, slavery, and the slow march toward Civil War
- 305.896/073075791509033 23
- F279.C49 N435 2013
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Book | La Retama Central Library | La Retama Central Library | Nonfiction | 305.896 KEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 33185014378202 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-375) and index.
The Stono Rebellion -- The good slave trader -- We the petty tyrants -- We the aristocrats -- The Denmark Vesey Rebellion -- The first secession -- The police state -- The lost generation -- War.
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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