South Carolina Fire-Eater
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, Keitt was a U. S. congressman in the 1850s, signed the Ordinance of Secession, and represented his ...
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, Keitt was a U. S. congressman in the 1850s, signed the Ordinance of Secession, and represented his ...
