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Interest in Denmark Vesey: Following the Dylann Roof shooting in Charleston, interest in Denmark Vesey has surged, with major pieces covering his life in Time Magazine, USA Today, NPR, The New Yorker, Slate, The Washington Post, and many other newspapers and magazines.

Platform: Authors have written thirteen op-ed essays for the New York Times. They have also published op-eds with the Atlantic, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Durham Herald-Sun, the Sacramento Bee, and the Fresno Bee, among other publications.

Newsworthy topics: examines the motivations of Dylann Roof, and address ongoing debates over Confederate symbols, which have grown under the Trump administration.

Opportunities:

2018 is the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ulrich B. Phillipss American Negro Slavery, once viewed as the nations seminal history of slavery. Authors will pitch contact at the NYT (Clay Risen) on an op-ed on Phillips work.
Authors are preparing a series of additional op-eds for national publications to coincide with pub date.

When South Carolina was the Most Progressive State in the Union, on the 150th anniversary of S.C. Constitutional Convention in mid-Jan 2018;

When the Fourth of July was Black, timed to come out on July 4th, 2018.

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One of Janet Maslins Favorite Books of 2018, The New York Times

One of John Warners Favorite Books of 2018, Chicago Tribune

Named one of the Best Civil War Books of 2018 by the Civil War Monitor

A fascinating and important new historical study.
Janet Maslin, The New York Times

A stunning contribution to the historiography of Civil War memory studies.
Civil War Times

The stunning, groundbreaking account of "the ways in which our nation has tried to come to grips with its original sin" (Providence Journal)

Hailed by the New York Times as a "fascinating and important new historical study that examines . . . the place where the ways slavery is remembered mattered most," Denmark Veseys Garden "maps competing memories of slavery from abolition to the very recent struggle to rename or remove Confederate symbols across the country" (The New Republic). This timely book reveals the deep roots of present-day controversies and traces them to the capital of slavery in the United States: Charleston, South Carolina, where almost half of the slaves brought to the United States stepped onto our shores, where the first shot at Fort Sumter began the Civil War, and where Dylann Roof murdered nine people at Emanuel A.M.E. Church, which was co-founded by Denmark Vesey, a black revolutionary who plotted a massive slave insurrection in 1822.

As they examine public rituals, controversial monuments, and competing musical traditions, "Kytle and Robertss combination of encyclopedic knowledge of Charlestons history and empathy with its inhabitants past and present struggles make them ideal guides to this troubled history" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). A work the Civil War Times called "a stunning contribution, " Denmark Veseys Garden exposes a hidden dimension of Americas deep racial divide, joining the small bookshelf of major, paradigm-shifting interpretations of slaverys enduring legacy in the United States.

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