Autor: Robert L. Paquette

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 The D …

A vast collection of documents that illuminate one of the mostsophisticated acts of collective slave resistance in the history of the U.S.In1822, thirty-four slaves and their leader, a free black man …