Denmark Vesey's revolt : the slave plot that lit a fuse to Fort Sumter / John Lofton; new introduction by Peter Charles Hoffer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lofton, John.

Series:

American abolitionism and antislavery

Standardized Title:

Insurrection in South Carolina

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vesey, Denmark, approximately 1767-1822.

Vesey, Denmark.

Slavery--South Carolina.

Slavery.

Charleston (S.C.)--History--Slave Insurrection, 1822.

Charleston (S.C.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 execution in U.S. history. At the time of Vesey's conviction, Charleston was America's chief slave port and one of its most racially tense cities. Whites were outnumbered by slaves three to one, and they were haunted by memories of the 1791 slave rebellion in Haiti. In Denmark Vesey's Revolt, John Lofton draws upon primary sources to examine the trial and provide, as Peter Hoffer says in his new introduction, "one of the most sensible and measured" accounts of the subject. This classic book was originally published in 1964 as Insurrection in South Carolina: The Turbulent World of Denmark Vesey, and then reissued by the Kent State University Press in 1983 as Denmark Vesey's Revolt: The Slave Plot That Lit a Fuse to Fort Sumter.

Contents:

A key port

Slavery in the islands

Slave life at sea

Slave city in a free republic

Burden bearers in South Carolina

Seeds of insurrection

The half-free community

Mainstream of reaction

Eddies of revolution

Preparing the ground

The hour for revolt

Rebels on trial

The harvest of fears

A fuse to Fort Sumter.

Notes:

Updated ed. of: Insurrection in South Carolina. 1964.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 28, 2013).

Other Edition:

Reproduction of: Lofton, John. Yellow Springs, Ohio : Antioch Press, 1964 (294 pages ; 22 cm.) Call number of original: F279.C4L6

ISBN:

1-61277-705-8

OCLC:

867741440