The Denmark Vesey Affair - (Southern Dissent) Annotated by Douglas R Egerton & Robert L Paquette (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Egerton and Paquette have edited and annotated a wealth of archival material to create the authoritative one-volume documentary history of the Denmark Vesey insurrection of 1822.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Choice Outstanding Academic Title </b> <p>In 1822, thirty-four slaves and their leader, a free black man named Denmark Vesey, were tried and executed for "attempting to raise an insurrection" in Charleston, South Carolina. In <i>The Denmark Vesey Affair</i>, Douglas Egerton and Robert Paquette annotate and interpret a vast collection of contemporary documents that illuminate and contextualize this complicated saga, ultimately arguing that the Vesey plot was one of the most sophisticated acts of collective slave resistance in the history of the United States. This is the definitive account of a landmark event that spurred the South to secession.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"[A]ims to prove that even if the revolt itself didn't actually happen, the plot did exist, and that it was the most sophisticated collective plot against slavery in the U.S."--<i>Time</i> "A truly invaluable collocation of documents. Highly Recommended."--<i>Choice</i> "This is the most comprehensive collection of source materials related to Denmark Vesey ever assembled. . . . An exhaustively researched volume that will prove indispensable to historians of slavery in the United States."--<i><b>Slavery and Abolition</i></b> "A monumental achievement. . . . Essential reading for understanding not just race and slavery but also the entirety of the nineteenth-century Atlantic world."--<i><b>Journal of the Early Republic</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Douglas R. Egerton</b>, professor of history at Le Moyne College, is the author of <i>Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America</i>. <b>Robert L. Paquette</b>, executive director of The Alexander Hamilton Institute in Clinton, New York, is coeditor of <i>The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas.</i>
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