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Author Kelly, Joseph, 1962- author.

Title America's longest siege : Charleston, slavery, and the slow march toward Civil War / Joseph Kelly.

Publication Info. New York, NY : The Overlook Press, 2013.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  305.896 KELLY    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.896 KELLY    Check Shelf
Description 384 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-375) and index.
Contents The Stono Rebellion -- The good slave trader -- We the petty tyrants -- We the aristocrats -- The Denmark Vesey Rebellion -- The first secession -- The police state -- The lost generation -- War.
Summary An account of the two hundred-year practice of slavery in Charleston examines its hotly contested debates and early slave rebellions through the Nullification crisis and the secession that sparked the Civil War.
Subject Charleston (S.C.) -- History -- 1775-1865.
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions.
Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History.
Slavery -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History.
Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations -- History.
Added Title Charleston, slavery, and the slow march toward Civil War
ISBN 159020719X hardback
9781590207192 hardback
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