All for Liberty Strickland Jeff
All for Liberty Strickland Jeff 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…
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All for Liberty Strickland Jeff
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. While Nat Turner, Gabriel Prosser, and Denmark Vesey remain the most recognizable rebels, the pivotal role of Kelly is often forgotten. With two accomplices, some sledgehammers, and pickaxes, Kelly risked his life and helped thirty-two fellow enslaved people escape the workhouse where they had been sent by their enslavers to be tortured.
This compelling micro-history navigates between Kelly's story and the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, while also considering the parallels between race and incarceration in the nineteenth century and in modern America. All for Liberty centers his rebellion as a decisive moment leading up to the secession of South Carolina from the United States in 1861.
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