The Denmark Vesey Affair

A Documentary History
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8130-6282-2
Verlag: University Press of Florida

Buch, Englisch, 928 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1692 g

Reihe: Southern Dissent

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.

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Über Autor(innen)

Douglas R. Egerton, professor of history at Le Moyne College, is the author of Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America.

Robert L. Paquette, executive director of the Alexander Hamilton Institute in Clinton, New York, is coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas.