All for Liberty

by Jeff Strickland

Book Overview

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"