In 1822, thirty-four slaves and their leader, a free black man named Denmark Vesey, were tried and executed for their alleged plot to murder the white citizens of Charleston, South Carolina. Presenting a vast collection of contemporary documents that support or contradict the "official" story, the editors of this volume annotate the texts and interpret the evidence. This is the definitive account of a landmark event that spurred the South to secession and holds symbolic meaning today-as evidenced by the 2015 shooting that took place in Emanuel AME Church, a church Vesey had attended. This volume argues that the Vesey plot was one of the most sophisticated acts of collective slave resistance in the history of the United States.
| ISBN: | 9780813062822 |
| Publication date: | 30th March 2017 |
| Author: | Douglas R Egerton, Robert L Paquette, Stanley Harrold, Randall M Miller |
| Publisher: | University Press of Florida |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 928 pages |
| Series: | Southern Dissent |
| Genres: |
Social groups, communities and identities General and world history |