Book contents
- All for Liberty
- All for Liberty
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Maps
- 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
7 - The Crisis of Fear in South Carolina
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 December 2021
- All for Liberty
- All for Liberty
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Maps
- 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In late 1849, Governor Whitemarsh Seabrook, a Charleston resident well aware of the workhouse revolt, called for tighter policing of slavery throughout the state. The Compromise of 1850 served to heighten tensions, as South Carolinians feared the federal government would not only ban the extension of slavery into newly acquired territory resulting from the war with Mexico. In fact, white South Carolinians debated seceding from the United States between 1850 and 1852, deciding against it – until the time was right.
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- All for LibertyThe Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion of 1849, pp. 167 - 188Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021