@no_way_this_is_real_: On July 13, 1849, a slave trader came to Charleston's Work House, the city's "Sugar House," to take away a woman Nicholas Kelly had been protecting. Nicholas fought back. With two other men, armed with sledgehammers and pickaxes, he battled the guards until the gate opened, and 37 people ran into the streets. All were recaptured. Nicholas, George Holmes, and John Toomer were hanged a week later. Their enslavers then sued the city for losing their "property." The largest workhouse slave rebellion in U.S. history, nearly erased. 🔨✊🏾 #NoWayThisIsReal #NicholasKelly #BlackHistory #slavery #slaveryhistory

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