He shall go out free : the lives of Denmark Vesey / Douglas R. Egerton.
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Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Book | University of Texas At Tyler Stacks - 3rd Floor | F279.C49 N423 1999 (Browse shelf) | Available | 0000001480227 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-240) and index.
The author used "church records, court documents, travel accounts, and newspapers from America and Saint Domingue to recreate the lost world of the mysterious Vesey," "a free black [who] was hanged in Charleston, S.C., for his leadership role in one of the largest slave uprisings ever planned in the United States."--Jacket.
Prologue: 1865 -- The Book of Telemaque, 1767-1783 -- Stranger in a Strange Land, 1783-1793 -- Nor a Lender Be, 1794-1799 -- Freedom, 1800-1817 -- Building the House of the Lord, 1817-1821 -- Exodus, 1821-1822 -- Lamentations, May-June 1822 -- Judges, June-August 1822 -- The Temple Finished, 1822-1865 -- The Charleston Hanged.
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