Denmark Vesey's revolt : the slave plot that lit a fuse to Fort Sumter /
In 1822, Denmark Vesey was found guilty of plotting an insurrection--what would have been the biggest slave uprising in U.S. history. A free man of color, he was hanged along with 34 other African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, in what historians agree was probably the largest civil execut...
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Uniform title: | Insurrection in South Carolina |
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Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2013] |
Series: | American abolitionism and antislavery
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Online Access: | Click here for full text at Project MUSE |