The Denmark Vesey Affair: A Documentary History
- ISBN-10
- 0813062829
- ISBN-13
- 9780813062822
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 928
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Southern Dissent
- Authors
- Douglas R. Egerton, Robert L. Paquette
Description
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.
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- 2022-10-26
- 915 pages
- Paperback
- University Press of Florida
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