Dueling in Charleston: Violence Refined in the Holy City

Event Details

Join the Charleston Museum's Curator of History, Grahame Long, for a lecture and book signing of his first book, Dueling in Charleston: Violence Refined in the Holy City, on Wednesday, February 20. The lecture will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Museum's auditorium and the book signing will immediately follow.

Long will explain how, in Charleston society, killing as a display of character was almost fashionable and a loss of life was not a high price for those who held personal honor and conviction paramount to all other social ideals. For a time, even the most casual character insults or slurs toward one's moral fiber or family lineage invited a challenge, and, almost always, the offended party was expected to retaliate.