| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Slave insurrections in the age of revolutions -- The slave workhouse -- Urban slavery -- The legal implication of slave resistance -- Rebellion at the workhouse -- Investigating the rebellion -- The crisis of fear in South Carolina |
| Summary |
Jeff Strickland tells the powerful story of Nicholas Kelly, the enslaved craftsman who led the Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion, the largest slave revolt in the history of the antebellum American South. With two accomplices, some sledgehammers, and pickaxes, Nicholas risked his life and helped thirty-six fellow enslaved people escape the workhouse where they had been sent by their enslavers to be tortured. While Nat Turner, Gabriel Prosser, and Denmark Vesey remain the most recognizable rebels, the pivotal role of Nicholas Kelly is often forgotten. All for Liberty centers his rebellion as a decisive moment leading up to the secession of South Carolina from the United States in 1861. This compelling micro-history navigates between Nicholas's story and the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, while also considering the parallels between race and incarceration in the nineteenth century and in modern America. Never before has the story of Nicholas Kelly been so eloquently told |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Kelly, Nicholas, -1849.
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Slave rebellions -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century
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Slavery -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century
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Slave rebellions -- Historiography
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HISTORY / African American & Black.
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Slave rebellions.
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Slave rebellions -- Historiography.
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Slavery.
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| SUBJECT |
Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion, Charleston, S.C., 1849
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| Subject |
South Carolina -- Charleston.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021024802 |
| ISBN |
9781108592345 |
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1108592341 |
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