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Americas Longest Siege

by Joseph Kelly

Race relationsSchlachtHistorySlaverySlavesSocial conditionsCharlestonAfrican Americans

An account of the two hundred-year practice of slavery in Charleston examines its hotly contested debates and early slave rebellions through the Nullification crisis and the secession that sparked the Civil War.

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