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  1. 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).

  2. 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.

  3. Nov 26, 2020 · 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. Vesey's work inspired North American 19th-century Black activists like Frederick Douglass and David Walker.

  4. 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.

  5. Jun 18, 2015 · Denmark Vesey, a co-founder of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, where nine people were shot dead on Wednesday night, began life as a slave and died...

  6. May 17, 2018 · Denmark Vesey (1767-1822), an African-American who fought to liberate his people from slavery, planned an abortive slave insurrection. Denmark Vesey, whose original name was Telemanque, was born in West Africa.

  7. Vesey became a martyr for African-Americans and a symbol for the abolitionist movement, while the increasingly militant politics of white America dragged the country toward Civil War. KEY...

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