Joseph Kelly is a professor of literature at the College of Charleston. He is the author of America's Longest Siege: Charleston, Slavery, and the Slow March Toward Civil War and the editor of the Seagull Reader series. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina.
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We all know the great American origin story: It begins with an exodus. Fleeing religious persecution, the hardworking, pious Pilgrims thrived in the wilds of New England, where they built their fabled 'shining city on a hill.' Legend goes that the colony ... SEE MORE