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Christopher II (Danish: Christoffer 2.; 29 September 1276 – 2 August 1332) was King of Denmark from 1320 to 1326 and again from 1329 until his death. He was a younger son of Eric V. His name is connected with national disaster, as his rule ended in a near-total dissolution of the Danish state.
Jul 19, 2022 · Vesey worked as a carpenter but could not free his wife and children owned by another slaveholder. He began plotting a revolt at an African church now known as Mother Emanuel.
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Jul 1, 2022 · Denmark Vesey, her grandfather’s ancestor, had been executed for leading a thwarted slave revolt, his legacy scrubbed from the city whose Black residents he had tried to liberate.
Apr 12, 2024 · Denmark Vesey (born c. 1767, probably St. Thomas, Danish West Indies—died July 2, 1822, Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.) was a self-educated Black man who planned the most extensive slave rebellion in U.S. history (Charleston, 1822).
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Denmark Vesey was born circa 1767 in the Caribbean island of St. Thomas and died July 2, 1822, in Charleston, South Carolina. Known in his early years as Telemaque, Vesey was a free Black man who organized what would have been the largest rebellion by enslaved people in the United States .
In 2014, the city erected a Denmark That's the title of a Wall Street Journal article that outlines Charleston's 200 year old struggle to deal with the legacy of Denmark Vesey...the former slave executed for attempting to foment a slave rebellion.
Denmark Vesey (also Telemaque) (c. 1767 –July 2, 1822) was a free Black and community leader in Charleston, South Carolina, who was accused and convicted of planning a major slave revolt in 1822.
