| Description |
445 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Slavery's capital -- The year of jubilee -- Reconstructing Charleston in the shadow of slavery -- Setting Jim Crow in stone -- Cradle of the lost cause -- Black memory in the Ivory City -- America's most historic city -- The sounds of slavery -- We don't go in for slave horrors -- We shall overcome -- Segregating the past -- Denmark Vesey's garden -- The saving grace of the Emanuel nine? |
| Summary |
A book that strikes at the heart of the recent flare-ups over Confederate symbols in Charlottesville, New Orleans, and elsewhere, Denmark Vesey's Garden reveals the deep roots of these controversies and traces them to the heart of slavery in the United States: Charleston, South Carolina, where almost half of the U.S. slave population stepped onto our shores, where the first shot at Fort Sumter began the Civil War, and where Dylann Roof shot nine people at Emanuel A.M.E. Church, the congregation of Denmark Vesey, a black revolutionary who plotted a massive slave insurrection in 1822. |
| Subject |
Vesey, Denmark, approximately 1767-1822.
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Emanuel AME Church (Charleston, S.C.)
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Slavery -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History.
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Memory -- Social aspects -- South Carolina -- Charleston.
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Charleston (S.C.) -- History -- Slave Insurrection, 1822.
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| Added Author |
Roberts, Blain, author.
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| ISBN |
9781620973653 (alk. paper) |
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1620973650 |
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