The Life of Laurence Massillion Keitt, 1824-1864
by
Holt Merchant
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
South Carolina Fire-Eater is the first book-length biography of Laurence Massillon Keitt, one of South Carolina’s most notorious advocates of secession and apologists for African American slavery. A politician who wanted to be a statesman, a Hotspur who wanted to be a distinguished military leader,...