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America's Longest Siege: Charleston, Slavery, and the Slow March Toward Civil War
By Kelly, Joseph
- ISBN
- 9781590207192
- Publisher
- Overlook
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Reviewed on September 1, 2013 | Social Sciences
Kelly (literature, Coll. of Charleston; Our Joyce) brings a literary sensibility to this vivid and engrossing study of slavery in and around one of its trading hubs, Charleston, SC, site of the first and longest Civil War siege and a hotbed of political, economic, religious, and moral debates about importing, owning, and trading slaves. The author explores the popular ideological arguments for and against slavery in the only American city (and state...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
