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America's longest siege : Charleston, slavery, and the slow march toward Civil War / Joseph Kelly.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY The Overlook Press 2013Description: 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781590207192 (hbk.)
  • 159020719X (hbk.)
Other title:
  • Charleston, slavery, and the slow march toward Civil War
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.896/073075791509033 23
LOC classification:
  • F279.C49 N435 2013
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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Book Book La Retama Central Library La Retama Central Library Nonfiction 305.896 KEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 33185014378202
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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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