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  1. Jun 28, 2024 · Denmark Vesey, self-educated Black man who in 1822 planned the most extensive slave rebellion in U.S. history. The revolt, which was to take place in Charleston, South Carolina, was thwarted after a house servant informed white authorities. Vesey was subsequently hanged.

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    Denmark Vesey (also Telemaque) (c. 1767 –July 2, 1822) was a free Black man and community leader in Charleston, South Carolina, who was accused and convicted of planning a major slave revolt in 1822.

  3. 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.

  4. Jul 19, 2022 · It would go down on the anniversary of the French Revolution, July 14, 1822, and involve thousands killing slaveholders, freeing people and fleeing to Haiti. But Vesey's plan was leaked, and...

  5. VESEY REBELLION. The plot organized by Denmark Vesey, a free black carpenter, in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1822 was perhaps the largest slave conspiracy in North American history.

  6. 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.

  7. Mar 15, 2017 · That’s a question that confronts historians who study the story of Denmark Vesey, a black carpenter who bought his freedom after winning the lottery and then secretly plotted a slave rebellion in...

  8. In 1822, Vesey and other leaders from the African Church began plotting a rebellion. His chief lieutenant was an East African priest named Gullah Jack, who led conspirators in prayer and...

  9. In 1822, Denmark Vesey was found guilty of plotting an insurrection—what would have been the biggest slave uprising in U.S. history. A free man of color, he was hanged along with 34 other African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, in what historians agree was probably the largest civil execution in U.S. history.

  10. Jul 30, 2011 · He talked about the failed 1822 slave revolt that resulted in the execution of the leader, Denmark Vesey. Professor Powers spoke in front of the Charleston church that Denmark Vesey's...

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