Denmark Vesey's Revolt: The Slave Plot That Lit a Fuse to Fort Sumter

Originally published in 1964 as Insurrection in South Carolina: The Turbulent World of Denmark Vesey, this book remains what John Hope Franklin originally declared it: "Easily the most definitive account in print of a single slave plot. But it is more than that. It is excellent social history of South Carolina in the early nineteenth century and a most revealing analysis of the political and economic system that created the turbulent world of Denmark Vesey.

Peter C. Hoffer is Distinguished Research Professor in the history department of the University of Georgia. His recent works include Nation of Laws: America’s Incomplete Search for Justice and Free Press Crisis of 1800: The Trial of Thomas Cooper for Seditious Libel.