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Laurence Massillon Keitt (October 4, 1824 – June 2, 1864) was an American planter, lawyer, politician, and soldier from South Carolina.
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.
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.
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 ...
20 oct. 2015 · 2.2K views 8 years ago. Washington and Lee Professor J. Holt Merchant gave a talk for The Tredegar Society covering the political extremism of the fire-eaters and how they helped bring about the...
In September 1860, the New York Leader published a description of Congressman Laurence M. Keitt of South Carolina that would have agitated the enemies and surprised the friends who read it. It was not the physical description of the man that would have attracted their attention.
24 août 2014 · South Carolinian Laurence M. Keitt is mostly recognized by Civil War readers as a second tier Deep South Fire-Eater who assisted Preston Brooks during the infamous Sumner caning incident and suffered a mortal wound at Cold Harbor leading a poorly orchestrated frontal attack.
