In 1863, Union forces stormed the city of Charleston, South Carolina, and held the harbour hostage for nearly two years - the longest siege in the history of modern warfare. Yet a singular ideology of racism has laid a different sort of siege to the entire American South for two centuries prior. In this sweeping, provocative new history of the city and the times that ignited America's Civil War, author Joseph Kelly examines America's long struggle with slavery and the debates at its very centre.
- ISBN10 159020719X
- ISBN13 9781590207192
- Publish Date 27 June 2013
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Overlook Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 386
- Language English