All for Liberty: The Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion of 1849

by Jeff Strickland

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Jeff Strickland tells the powerful story of Nicholas Kelly, the enslaved craftsman who led the Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion, the largest slave revolt in the history of the antebellum American South. With two accomplices, some sledgehammers, and pickaxes, Nicholas risked his life and helped thirty-six fellow enslaved people escape the workhouse where they had been sent by their enslavers to be tortured. While Nat Turner, Gabriel Prosser, and...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1108716911

ISBN13:9781108716918

Release Date:December 2021

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.82 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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