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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780679762188
In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, David
Robertson illuminates the shadowy figure who planned a slave
rebellion so daring that, if successful, it might have changed the
face of the antebellum South. This is the story of a man who, like
Nat Turner, Marcus Garvey, and Malcolm X, is a complex yet seminal
hero in the history of African American emancipation.
Denmark Vesey was a charasmatic ex-slave–literate, professional,
and relatively well-off–who had purchased his own freedom with the
winnings from a lottery. Inspired by the success of the
revolutionary black republic in Haiti, he persuaded some nine
thousand slaves to join him in a revolt. On a June evening in 1822,
having gathered guns, and daggers, they were to converge on
Charleston, South Carolina, take the city’s arsenal, murder the
populace, burn the city, and escape by ship to Haiti or Africa.
When the uprising was betrayed, Vesey and seventy-seven of his
followers were executed, the matter hushed by Charleston’s elite
for fear of further rebellion. Compelling, informative, and often
disturbing, this book is essential to a fuller understanding of the
struggle against slavery.
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