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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 Denmark Vesey remain the most recognizable
rebels, the pivotal role of Nicholas Kelly is often forgotten. All
for Liberty centers his rebellion as a decisive moment leading up
to the secession of South Carolina from the United States in 1861.
This compelling micro-history navigates between Nicholas'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. Never before has the story of Nicholas Kelly
been so eloquently told.
In this volume, ten expert historians and legal scholars examine
the Civil Rights Act of 1866, the first federal civil rights
statute in American history. The act declared that all persons born
in the United States were citizens without regard to race, color,
or previous condition of slavery. Designed to give the Thirteenth
Amendment practical effect as former slave states enacted laws
limiting the rights of African Americans, this measure for the
first time defined U.S. citizenship and the rights associated with
it. Essays examine the history and legal ramifications of the act
and highlight competing impulses within it, including the
often-neglected Section 9, which allows the president to use the
nation's military in its enforcement; an investigation of how the
Thirteenth Amendment operated to overturn the Dred Scott case; and,
New England's role in the passage of the act. The act is analyzed
as it operated in several states such as Kentucky, Missouri, and
South Carolina during Reconstruction. There is also a consideration
of the act and its interpretation by the Supreme Court in its first
decades. Other essays include a discussion of the act in terms of
contract rights and in the context of the post-World War II Civil
Rights Era as well as an analysis of the act's backward-looking and
forward-looking nature. Not only is the Civil Rights Act of 1866
historically significant as the moment in Reconstruction when the
federal government first sought to define national citizenship and
protect civil rights, it continues to frame citizenship and rights
debates and it is still used in federal lawsuits today.
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 Denmark Vesey remain the most recognizable
rebels, the pivotal role of Nicholas Kelly is often forgotten. All
for Liberty centers his rebellion as a decisive moment leading up
to the secession of South Carolina from the United States in 1861.
This compelling micro-history navigates between Nicholas'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. Never before has the story of Nicholas Kelly
been so eloquently told.
During the latter half of the nineteenth century, German and Irish
immigrants were as central to the development of the political
economy of Charleston, South Carolina, as white southerners and
African Americans. As artisans and entrepreneurs, foreigners
occupied a middle tier in the racial and ethnic hierarchy of the
South's most economically and politically important city. As agents
of change, they provided a buffer, alleviating tensions between the
castes until assimilating after emancipation and, in many
instances, effectively embracing white supremacy. In Unequal
Freedoms, Jeff Strickland examines the complex interplay of race,
ethnicity, and class to reveal the pivotal ways in which European
immigrants influenced the social, economic, and political
development of the South.
The history of capitalist development in the United States is long,
uneven, and overwhelmingly focused on the North. Macroeconomic
studies of the South have primarily emphasized the role of the
cotton economy in global trading networks. Until now, few in-depth
scholarly works have attempted to explain how capitalism in the
South took root and functioned in all of its diverse-and
duplicitous-forms. Southern Scoundrels explores the lesser-known
aspects of the emergence of capitalism in the region: the shady and
unscrupulous peddlers, preachers, slave traders, war profiteers,
thieves, and marginal men who seized available opportunities to get
ahead and, in doing so, left their mark on the southern economy.
Eschewing conventional economic theory, this volume features
narrative storytelling as engaging and seductive as the cast of
shifty characters under examination. Contributors cover the
chronological sweep of the nineteenth-century South, from the
antebellum era through the tumultuous and chaotic Civil War years,
and into Reconstruction and beyond. The geographic scope is equally
broad, with essays encompassing the Chesapeake, South Carolina, the
Lower Mississippi Valley, Texas, Missouri, and Appalachia. These
essays offer a series of social histories on the nineteenth-century
southern economy and the changes wrought by capitalist
transformation. Tracing that story through the kinds of oily
individuals who made it happen, Southern Scoundrels provides
fascinating insights into the region's hucksters and its history.
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