Denmark Vesey's revolt : the slave plot that lit a fuse to Fort Sumter /
John Lofton
- Ohio : The Kent State University Press, c1982
- xix, 287 pages ; 21 cm.
Includes index.
1. A key port -- 2. Slavery in the islands -- 3. Slave life at sea -- 4. Slave city in a free republic -- 5. Burden bearer in south carolina -- 6. Seeds of insurrection -- 7. The half-free community -- 8. Mainstream of reaction -- 9. Eddies of revolution.
The objectives of this book are to portray the thread of the captain's life from the time it was first interwoven with that of the young slave, and to examine what effect this inter-weaving may have had on the fabric of denmark's character and what effect the social milieu of man and slave may have had in producing a man of revolution.