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The Denmark Vesey affair : a documentary history / edited by Douglas R. Egerton and Robert L. Paquette ; foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Southern dissent.
- Southern Dissent Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Enslaved persons--South Carolina--Charleston--Biography.
- Enslaved persons.
- Slave rebellions--South Carolina--Charleston.
- Slave rebellions.
- Charleston (S.C.)--History--Slave Insurrection, 1822.
- Charleston (S.C.).
- Vesey, Denmark, approximately 1767-1822.
- Vesey, Denmark.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1059 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2017]
- Summary:
- Annotating and interpreting a vast collection of documents that illuminate and contextualize the 1822 Denmark Vesey plot, the editors of this volume argue that this landmark event was one of the most sophisticated acts of collective slave resistance in the history of the United States.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Editorial Statement
- Introduction
- List of Abbreviations
- Timeline
- Part I. Preconditions
- Part II. Proceedings
- Part III. Trials: The Official Report and the Senate Transcript
- Official Report
- Senate Transcript
- Part IV. Eyewitnesses
- Part V. Aftermath
- Part VI. Recollections and Memorializations
- Index Generated by AI.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Douglas R. Egerton, Egerton The Denmark Vesey Affair
- ISBN:
- 9780813072661
- 0813072662
- OCLC:
- 1348489453
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