TAKE THEM DOWN
From the beginning, it was frequently the least powerful members of the Black community—women and young people—at the forefront of the effort to bring them down.
Blain Roberts and Ethan J. Kytle are professors of history at California State University, Fresno, and graduates of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Their book, Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy, is published by The New Press.