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The Denmark Vesey Affair: A Documentary History (Southern Dissent) by Douglas R Egerton; Robert L Paquette; Stanley Harrold; Randall M Miller is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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In 1822, thirty-four slaves and their leader, a free black man named Denmark Vesey, were tried and executed for'attempting to raise an insurrection'in Charleston, South Carolina. In The Denmark Vesey Affair, Douglas Egerton and Robert Paquette annotate and interpret a vast collection of contemporary documents that illuminate and contextualize this complicated saga,, providing the definitive account of a landmark event that played a role in the nation's path to Civil War. The editors ultimately argue that the Vesey plot was one of the most sophisticated acts of collective slave resistance in the history of the United States. A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller

Who reads The Denmark Vesey Affair: A Documentary History (Southern Dissent)?

Author

Douglas R Egerton; Robert L Paquette; Stanley Harrold; Randall M Miller

Publisher

University Press of Florida

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813068992

Category

history

Subjects

History, Biography, Science

Rating

5 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14