All for Liberty

Jeff Strickland is a Professor of History and Department Chair at Montclair State University. His first book, Unequal Freedoms: Ethnicity, Race, and White Supremacy in Civil War Era Charleston was a finalist for the George C. Rogers Prize for best book in South Carolina history. He has been researching and writing the history of Charleston for more than twenty years.

• Introduction; 1. Slave insurrections in the age of revolutions; 2. The slave workhouse; 3. Urban slavery; 4. The legal implications of slave resistance; 5. Rebellion at the workhouse; 6. Investigating the rebellion; 7. The crisis of fear in South Carolina; Conclusion.

'The cruelties of the Old South's criminal justice system are laid bare in this account of the Charleston Workhouse Rebellion of 1849. Strickland resurrects slave rebel Nicholas Kelly and embeds his remarkable yet forgotten uprising within the contexts of South Carolina's largest urban area, the American South, and the broader Atlantic world.' Jeff Forret, author of Williams' Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts