{"id":47550,"date":"2018-07-25T17:50:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T23:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=47550"},"modified":"2018-07-24T13:55:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T19:55:53","slug":"ethan-kytle-blain-roberts-explore-charlestons-historical-past-with-denmark-veseys-garden-wednesday-august-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/ethan-kytle-blain-roberts-explore-charlestons-historical-past-with-denmark-veseys-garden-wednesday-august-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethan Kytle & Blain Roberts Explore Charleston’s Historical Past with “Denmark Vesey’s Garden,” Wednesday, August 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book signing at Off Square Books Wednesday, August 1 at 5 pm<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

In the tradition of James Loewen<\/strong>\u2019s Lies My Teacher Told Me<\/strong><\/em>, a deeply researched book that\u00a0<\/span>uncovers competing histories of how slavery is remembered in Charleston, South Carolina<\/strong>\u2014the\u00a0<\/span>heart of Dixie<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

A book that strikes at the heart of the recent flare-ups over Confederate symbols in\u00a0<\/span>Charlottesville, New Orleans<\/strong>, and elsewhere, Denmark Vesey\u2019s Garden<\/strong><\/em> reveals the deep roots of\u00a0<\/span>these controversies and traces them to the heart of slavery in the United States: Charleston, South\u00a0<\/span>Carolina, where almost half of the U.S. slave population stepped onto our shores, where the first\u00a0<\/span>shot at Fort Sumter<\/strong> began the Civil War<\/strong>, and where Dylann Roof<\/strong> shot nine people at Emanuel\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>A.M.E. Church<\/strong>, the congregation of Denmark Vesey, a black revolutionary who plotted a\u00a0<\/span>massive slave insurrection in 1822.<\/span><\/p>\n

As early as 1865, former slaveholders and their descendants began working to preserve a\u00a0<\/span>romanticized memory of the antebellum South. In contrast, former slaves, their descendants, and\u00a0<\/span>some white allies have worked to preserve an honest, unvarnished account of slavery as the cruel\u00a0<\/span>system it was.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Examining public rituals, controversial monuments, and whitewashed historical tourism,\u00a0<\/span>Denmark Vesey\u2019s Garden<\/em> tracks these two rival memories from the Civil War all the way to\u00a0<\/span>contemporary times, where two segregated tourism industries still reflect these opposing\u00a0<\/span>impressions of the past, exposing a hidden dimension of America\u2019s deep racial divide. Denmark\u00a0<\/em><\/span>Vesey\u2019s Garden<\/em> joins the small bookshelf of major, paradigm-shifting new interpretations of\u00a0<\/span>slavery\u2019s enduring legacy in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Book signing at Off Square Books Wednesday, August 1 at 5 pm In the tradition of James Loewen\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":47646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2239,1],"tags":[12985,931,12981,7085,7574,2606,12982,1396,12983,12984,6756,12979,12980,896,2892,6204],"class_list":["post-47550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-literary-events","category-uncategorized","tag-antebellum-south","tag-charleston","tag-charlottesville","tag-civil-war","tag-confederate-symbols","tag-denmark-vesey","tag-denmark-veseys-garden","tag-dixie","tag-dylann-roof","tag-emanuel-a-m-e-church","tag-fort-sumter","tag-james-loewen","tag-lies-my-teacher-told-me","tag-new-orleans","tag-south-carolina","tag-united-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Denmark-Veseys-Garden-feat.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}