Denmark Vesey The Buried Story of America's Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led It

Name: Denmark Vesey The Buried Story of America's Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led It
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ISBN: 9780679762188

ISBN-10: 0679762183

ISBN-13: 9780679762188

Edition: 2000

Authors: David M. Robertson, David M. Robertson

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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,…

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List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/8/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.10" wide x 8.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Introduction: The Reality of Denmark Vesey



The Men from Barbados



A Place Called Charleston in the Christian Language



The African Church and Denmark Vesey as Prophet



Nothing Can Be Done Without Fire



Theater of Terror: The Magnolia Curtain and the Sable Curtain



The Trials of Vesey and His Conspirators



The Shock of Executions: Denmark Vesey as a National Figure



The Darkness of Slavery: Denmark Vesey as a Historical Figure



Remembering Denmark Vesey as a Black Leader


Postscript: A Personal Conclusion: Spartacus's List and the Search for Vesey's Grave



The List of Those Who Died with Denmark Vesey, 1822


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index