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America's Longest Siege: Charleston, Slavery, and the Slow March Toward Civil War
by Kelly, Joseph
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 159020719X
- ISBN 13
- 9781590207192
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About This Item
New York: Overlook Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2013. First US Edition. Hardcover. 159020719X . A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. B&W illustrations ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 384 pages; "a singular ideology forged among the headstrong citizens of Charleston had laid a different sort of siege to the entire American South--the promulgation of brutal, deplorable, and immensely profitable institution of slavery. In America's Longest Siege, 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," .
Synopsis
In 1863, Union forces surrounded the city of Charleston. Their vise-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 singular ideology forged among the headstrong citizens of Charleston had laid a different sort of siege to a complicit American South—the promulgation of the brutal, deplorable, and immensely profitable institution of slavery. In America’s Longest Siege , 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. Kelly also explores the dissenters who tried—and ultimately failed—to stop the oncoming Civil War.
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- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21582
- Title
- America's Longest Siege: Charleston, Slavery, and the Slow March Toward Civil War
- Author
- Kelly, Joseph
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First US Edition
- ISBN 10
- 159020719X
- ISBN 13
- 9781590207192
- Publisher
- Overlook Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- 159020719X, Charleston, Slavery
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