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Laurence Massillon Keitt (October 4, 1824 – June 2, 1864) was an American planter, lawyer, politician, and soldier from South Carolina. During his tenure in the United States House of Representatives, he was included in several lists of Fire-Eaters —men who adamantly urged the secession of southern states from the United States ...
Laurence M. Keitt, U.S. Congressman from South Carolina. Circa 1860. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. (1824-1864) Keitt was born in Orangeburg District, S.C. to George Keitt and Mary Magdalene Wannamaker Keitt.
Laurence Massillon Keitt, a Representative from South Carolina, was among the more prominent of the southern Fire-eaters (along with William Lowndes Yancey, Robert Barnwell Rhett, Edmund Ruffin, Robert Toombs, and Louis T. Wigfall). Keitt was born in Orangeburg District, S.C., October 4, 1824, pursued classical studies, and graduated from South ...
For a detailed example of a slaveholder’s poison-related paranoia, we have to look no further than the prolific diarist Mary Chesnut, who recounted the gruesome story of a Dr. Keitt—brother to Lawrence Massillon Keitt, of Brooks-Sumner infamy.
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.
Download. XML. The first book-length biography of the controversialcongressman, secessionist, and Confederate colonelSouth Carolina Fire-Eater is the first book-lengthbiograph...
31 de dic. de 2014 · Speech of Hon. Lawrence M. Keitt, of South Carolina, on the origin of slavery; delivered in the House of representatives, May 24, 1858 : Keitt, Laurence Massilon, 1824-1864. [from old catalog] : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
