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Denmark Vesey's garden : slavery and memory in the cradle of the Confederacy / Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts.

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A book that strikes at the heart of the recent flare-ups over Confederate symbols in Charlottesville, New Orleans, and elsewhere, Denmark Vesey's Garden reveals the deep roots of these controversies and traces them to the heart of slavery in the United States: Charleston, South Carolina, where...

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Main Authors: Kytle, Ethan J. (Author), Roberts, Blain (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : The New Press, 2019.
Edition:Paperback edition.
Subjects:
Vesey, Denmark, > approximately 1767-1822.
Emanuel AME Church (Charleston, S.C.)
Slavery > South Carolina > Charleston > History.
Memory > Social aspects > South Carolina > Charleston.
Slave rebellions > South Carolina > Charleston.
Charleston (S.C.) > History > Slave Insurrection, 1822.
Slave Insurrection (Charleston, South Carolina : 1822)
Memory > Social aspects.
Slave rebellions.
Slavery.
South Carolina > Charleston.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Prelude: Slavery's capital
  • Part I: Emancipation and Reconstruction
  • The year of jubilee
  • Reconstructing Charleston in the shadow of slavery
  • Part II: Jim Crow rising
  • Setting Jim Crow in stone
  • Cradle of the Lost Cause
  • Part III: Jim Crow era
  • Black memory in the Ivory City
  • America's most historic city
  • The sounds of slavery
  • We don't go in for slave horrors
  • Part IV: Civil rights era and beyond
  • We shall overcome
  • Segregating the past
  • Conclusion: Denmark Vesey's garden
  • Afterword: The saving grace of the Emanuel nine?

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