All for liberty : the Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion of 1849 / Jeff Strickland.

"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, pickaxes, Kelly risked his life and helped thirty-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Strickland, Jeffery Glenn, 1970- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Subjects:	Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion, Charleston, S.C., 1849. Slave rebellions > South Carolina > Charleston > History > 19th century. Slavery > South Carolina > Charleston > History > 19th century. Kelly, Nicholas, > -1849. Slave rebellions > Historiography. HISTORY / African American & Black. Slave rebellions. Slavery. South Carolina > Charleston. 1800-1899 History.
Genre:	History.
Physical Description:	xii, 276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Variant Title:	Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion of 1849
Format:	Book

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