| Title | Denmark Vesey : the slave conspiracy of 1822 / edited by Robert S. Starobin.
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| Published | Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, c1970.
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| Description | vi, 185 p. ; 21 cm.
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| Series | A Spectrum book
Great lives observed
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| ISBN | 0-13-198440-3 |
| ISBN | 978-0-13-198440-0 |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Introduction : Chronology of the conspiracy and the life of Denmark Vesey -- Part I. The trials of the conspirators -- The "Official report of the trials of sundry negroes, charged with an attempt to raise an insurrection in the state of South Carolina" -- Original confessions of Bacchus Hammet and John Enslow -- Part II. Americans react to the plot -- Justice William Johnson doubts the extensiveness of the plot, warns against mass hysteria, and is rebuked by the court -- Southerners privately ponder the meaning of the conspiracy -- Southern and Northern newspapers editorialize on the conspiracy -- Governor Bennett explains the circumstances of the conspiracy -- Statement by the Mayor of Charleston -- The court releases its explanation of the causes of the plot -- The Reverend Richard Furman writes to Governor Thomas Bennett -- The proslavery argument restated -- A Charleston editor refutes the "calumnies" against the South and proposes to eliminate the free black population -- Thomas Pinckney favors excluding black workers from Charleston -- Charleston citizens petition the state legislature -- The South Carolina legislature further represses the black population -- Part III. The rebellion in history -- "A colored American" : Brave patriots -- Joseph C. Carroll : The national crisis of the 1829s -- Richard Wade : Reconsiderations and revisions.
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| Subjects | Charleston (S.C.) -- History -- Slave Insurrection, 1822.
Slave insurrections -- South Carolina -- Charleston.
Vesey, Denmark, ca. 1767-1822,
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| Other Authors | Starobin, Robert S.
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| LC Card Number | 71-120796 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: F 19 Y C477 S79
mq239234: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 143862] |
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