Denmark Vesey Plans Massive Charleston Slave Rebellion, Exposing Institutional Terror
Denmark Vesey, a free Black carpenter and Methodist leader who purchased his freedom in 1800 after winning a $1,500 lottery, allegedly plans the most extensive slave insurrection in U.S. history, organizing thousands of enslaved and free Blacks in Charleston, South Carolina to overthrow the …
Denmark Vesey
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Charleston authorities
Enslaved conspirators
slavery
institutional-corruption
slave-rebellion
state-violence
resistance
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