America's Longest Siege: Charleston, Slavery, and the Slow March Toward Civil War

by Joseph Kelly

Book Overview

But for almost two centuries prior, 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159020719X
• ISBN13: 9781590207192
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher