2.  On Chapter V (Indian and Negro)

A standard work on the Second Seminole War is The Origin, Progress, and Conclusion of the Florida War, by John T. Sprague, D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1848; but also important as touching upon the topics of the chapter are The Exiles of Florida, by Joshua R. Giddings, Columbus, Ohio, 1858, and a speech by Giddings in the House of Representatives February 9, 1841.  Note also House Document No. 128 of the 1st session of the 20th Congress, and Document 327 of the 2nd session of the 25th Congress.  The Aboriginal Races of North America, by Samuel G. Drake, fifteenth edition, New York, 1880, is interesting and suggestive though formless; and McMaster in different chapters gives careful brief accounts of the general course of the Indian wars.

3.  On Chapter VII (Insurrections)

(For insurrections before that of Denmark Vesey note especially Coffin,
Holland, and Horsemanden above.  On Gabriel’s Insurrection see article by
Higginson (Atlantic, X. 337), afterwards included in Travellers and
Outlaws.)

Denmark Vesey

1.  An Official Report of the Trials of Sundry Negroes, charged with an attempt to raise an Insurrection in the State of South Carolina.  By Lionel H. Kennedy and Thomas Parker (members of the Charleston Bar and the Presiding Magistrates of the Court).  Charleston, 1822.

2.  An Account of the Late Intended Insurrection among a Portion of the Black of this City.  Published by the Authority of the Corporation of Charleston.  Charleston, 1822 (reprinted Boston, 1822, and again in Boston and Charleston).

The above accounts, now exceedingly rare, are the real sources of all later study of Vesey’s insurrection.  The two accounts are sometimes identical; thus the list of those executed or banished is the same.  The first has a good introduction.  The second was written by James Hamilton, Intendant of Charleston.

3.  Letter of Governor William Bennett, dated August 10, 1822. (This was evidently a circular letter to the press.  References are to Lundy’s Genius of Universal Emancipation, II, 42, Ninth month, 1822, and there are reviews in the following issues, pages 81, 131, and 142.  Higginson notes letter as also in Columbian Sentinel, August 31, 1822; Connecticut Courant, September 3, 1822; and Worcester Spy, September 18, 1822.)

Three secondary accounts in later years are important: 

1.  Article on Denmark Vesey by Higginson (Atlantic, VII. 728) included in Travellers and Outlaws:  Episodes in American History.  Lee and Shepard, Boston, 1889.

2.  Right on the Scaffold, or the Martyrs of 1822, by Archibald H. Grimke.  No. 7 of the Papers of the American Negro Academy, Washington.

3.  Book I, Chapter XII, “Denmark Vesey’s Insurrection,” in Robert Y. Hayne and His Times, by Theodore D. Jervey, The Macmillan Co., New York, 1909.