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Author	Kytle, Ethan J.
Title	Denmark Vesey's garden : slavery and memory in the cradle of the Confederacy / Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts.
Publication Info.	New York : The New Press, 2018.
	©2018

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 2	975.7 K	IN LIBRARY

Description	445 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Prelude: Slavery's capital -- Part I: Emancipation and Reconstruction -- The year of jubilee -- Reconstructing Charleston in the shadow of slavery -- Part II: Jim Crow rising -- Setting Jim Crow in stone -- Cradle of the Lost Cause -- Part III: Jim Crow era -- Black memory in the Ivory City -- America's most historic city -- The sounds of slavery -- We don't go in for slave horrors -- Part IV: Civil rights era and beyond -- We shall overcome -- Segregating the past -- Conclusion: Denmark Vesey's garden -- Afterword: The saving grace of the Emanuel nine?
Subject	Vesey, Denmark, approximately 1767-1822.
	Emanuel AME Church (Charleston, S.C.)
	Slavery -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History.
	Memory -- Social aspects -- South Carolina -- Charleston.
	Charleston (S.C.) -- History -- Slave Insurrection, 1822.
Added Author	Roberts, Blain.
Added Title	Slavery and memory in the cradle of the Confederacy
ISBN	9781620973653 (hardcover alkaline paper)
	1620973650 (hardcover alkaline paper)
Standard No.	40028106001

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