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

Contributor:

Egerton, Douglas R., editor.

Paquette, Robert L., 1951- editor.

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

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Other Format:

Print version: Douglas R. Egerton, Egerton The Denmark Vesey Affair

ISBN:

9780813072661

0813072662

OCLC:

1348489453