The Denmark Vesey Affair - A Documentary History

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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Douglas R. (EDT)/ Paquette Egerton
• Mitarbeit: Douglas R Egerton (Herausgeber), Douglas R Egerton (Herausgeber), Douglas R. Egerton (Herausgeber), Robert L Paquette (Herausgeber), Robert L. Paquette (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: University Press Of Florida
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 14.03.2017
• EAN: 9780813062822
• ISBN: 978-0-8130-6282-2
• Seiten: 928
• Serie: Southern Dissent
• Thema: Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges