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AMERICA'S LONGEST SIEGE: CHARLESTON, SLAVERY, AND THE SLOW MARCH TOWARD CIVIL WAR by Joseph Kelly
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America's Longest Siege: Charleston, Slavery, and the Slow March Toward Civil War by Joseph Kelly
In 1863, Union forces surrounded the city of Charleston. Their vice-like grip on the harbor would hold the city hostage for nearly two years, becoming the longest siege in the history of modern warfare. But for almost two centuries prior, a singularly ideology forged among the headstrong citizens of Charleston had laid a different sort of siege to the entire American South -- the promulgation of the brutal, immoral, and immensely profitable institution of slavery.
In America's Longest Siege, historian Joseph Kelly examines the nation's long struggle with its "peculiar institution" through the hotly contested debates in the city at the center of the slave trade. From the earliest slave rebellions to the Nullification crisis to the final, tragic act of secession that doomed both the city and the South as a whole, Kelly captures the toxic mix of nationalism, paternalism, and unprecedented wealth that made Charleston the focus of the nationwide debate over slavery. Kelly also explores the dissenters who tried -- and ultimately failed -- to stop the oncoming Civil War.
Thoroughly researched and compulsively readable, America's Longest Siege offers an incisive new take on the war and the culture that made it inevitable.
Overlook Press, Hardcover, 2013
This is a BRAND NEW book. There is a "closeout/remainder" mark on the bottom page edges.
In 1863, Union forces surrounded the city of Charleston. Their vice-like grip on the harbor would hold the city hostage for nearly two years, becoming the longest siege in the history of modern warfare. But for almost two centuries prior, a singularly ideology forged among the headstrong citizens of Charleston had laid a different sort of siege to the entire American South -- the promulgation of the brutal, immoral, and immensely profitable institution of slavery.
In America's Longest Siege, historian Joseph Kelly examines the nation's long struggle with its "peculiar institution" through the hotly contested debates in the city at the center of the slave trade. From the earliest slave rebellions to the Nullification crisis to the final, tragic act of secession that doomed both the city and the South as a whole, Kelly captures the toxic mix of nationalism, paternalism, and unprecedented wealth that made Charleston the focus of the nationwide debate over slavery. Kelly also explores the dissenters who tried -- and ultimately failed -- to stop the oncoming Civil War.
Thoroughly researched and compulsively readable, America's Longest Siege offers an incisive new take on the war and the culture that made it inevitable.
Overlook Press, Hardcover, 2013
This is a BRAND NEW book. There is a "closeout/remainder" mark on the bottom page edges.
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