Denmark Vesey: The Buried Story of America's Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led It Paperback - 2000 - 1st Edition
by David M. Robertson
In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, Robertson illuminates Denmark Vesey, the shadowy figure who planned a slave rebellion so daring that, if successful, it might have changed the face of the antebellum South. Compelling, informative, and often disturbing, this history is essential to a fuller understanding of the struggle against slavery. of illustrations.
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In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, David Robertson illuminates the shadowy figure who planned a slave rebellion so daring that, if successful, it might have changed the face of the antebellum South. This is the story of a man who, like Nat Turner, Marcus Garvey, and Malcolm X, is a complex yet seminal hero in the history of African American emancipation.
Denmark Vesey was a charasmatic ex-slave--literate, professional, and relatively well-off--who had purchased his own freedom with the winnings from a lottery. Inspired by the success of the revolutionary black republic in Haiti, he persuaded some nine thousand slaves to join him in a revolt. On a June evening in 1822, having gathered guns, and daggers, they were to converge on Charleston, South Carolina, take the city's arsenal, murder the populace, burn the city, and escape by ship to Haiti or Africa. When the uprising was betrayed, Vesey and seventy-seven of his followers were executed, the matter hushed by Charleston's elite for fear of further rebellion. Compelling, informative, and often disturbing, this book is essential to a fuller understanding of the struggle against slavery.
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- Title Denmark Vesey: The Buried Story of America's Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led It
- Author David M. Robertson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date August 8, 2000
- ISBN 9780679762188 / 0679762183
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8.03 x 5.2 x 0.63 in (20.40 x 13.21 x 1.60 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1800-1850
- Cultural Region: Deep South
- Cultural Region: South Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region: South
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Geographic Orientation: South Carolina
- Topical: Black History
- Library of Congress subjects Vesey, Denmark, Charleston (S.C.) - History - Slave
- Dewey Decimal Code 975.791
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- Commonweal, 06/20/2003, Page 25
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