TY - BOOK ID - 99995812 TI - All for liberty : the Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion of 1849 PY - 2022 SN - 1108592341 1108492592 110858702X 1108681786 1108716911 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Slave insurrections KW - Slavery KW - History KW - Historiography. KW - Kelly, Nicholas, KW - Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion, Charleston, S.C., 1849. KW - Abolition of slavery KW - Antislavery KW - Enslavement KW - Mui tsai KW - Ownership of slaves KW - Servitude KW - Slave keeping KW - Slave system KW - Slaveholding KW - Thralldom KW - Crimes against humanity KW - Serfdom KW - Slaveholders KW - Slaves KW - Slave rebellions KW - Slave revolts KW - Revolutions KW - Insurrections, etc. KW - Enslaved persons UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:99995812 AB - 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. ER -