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Commonly known as the Denmark Vesey House, the house located at 56 Bull Street in Charleston, South Carolina was for a long time thought to be the house once inhabited by black abolitionist Denmark Vesey. Vesey's home, listed as 20 Bull Street under the city's former numbering system, is now evidently gone.
The Denmark Vesey house, located at 56 Bull street, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and even features a physical marker that states the historic value of the site. The designation of this site enables the city of Charleston to commemorate Denmark Vesey on the city’s historical landscape.
This modest house in downtown Charleston was once thought to be the home of Denmark Vesey, the leader of a foiled slave insurrection planned in 1822. In the 1980s state archivist Wylma Wates and architectural historian Edward Turberg found evidence to suggest that this house was actually built after Vesey’s death and that Vesey’s home stood ...
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The Denmark Vesey House in Charleston, although almost certainly not the historic home of Vesey, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976 by the Department of Interior. In 1976, the city of Charleston commissioned a portrait of Vesey. It was hung in the Gaillard Municipal Auditorium, but was controversial.
Quick Facts. Denmark Vesey, a carpenter and formerly enslaved person, allegedly planned an enslaved insurrection to coincide with Bastille Day in Charleston, South Carolina in 1822. Vesey modeled his rebellion after the successful 1791 slave revolution in Haiti.
56 Bull Street, Charleston, SC 29401. 1822. It was near this site (but not in the present building – despite the historical marker giving contrary information) that free person of color Denmark Vesey lived in 1822 when word of an uprising to be led by him reached the ears of the mayor and other city leaders.
Denmark Vesey House - Clio. Introduction. Text-to-speech Audio. This single family dwelling was initially thought to be the home of Denmark Vesey, a free Black Charleston carpenter who was tried and executed for planning a slave uprising in 1822.
