World of Thomas Jeremiah: Charles Town on the Eve of the American Revolution

by William R. Ryan

Book Overview

This book profiles the port of Charles Town, South Carolina, during the two-year period leading up to the Declaration of Independence. It focuses on the dramatic hanging and burning of Thomas Jeremiah, a free black harbor pilot and firefighter accused by the patriot party of plotting a slave insurrection during the tumultous spring and summer of 1775. To examine the world of this wealthy, slave-holding African American through his trial and execution,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195387287
• ISBN13: 9780195387285
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"