denmark vesey revolt

When the issue of slave revolts comes up, we certainly hear the name of Nat Turner. But we also often hear the name Denmark Vesey in that same discussion. Turner's revolt, of course, ranks among the most effective in the...


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Denmark Vesey's Revolt: The Slave Plot That Lit a Fuse to Fort Sumter book


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Denmark Vesey Slave Rebellion

On Bastille Day, 1822, Denmark Vesey planned to rise up with a few more than a hundred slaves to strike Charleston, South Carolina. The plan leaked and it went no where. Just shy of a decade later, down the road in...
Kingdom Comin': The Largest Slave Rebellion in U.S. History

No North American slave uprising—not Gabriel Prosser, not Denmark Vesey, not Nat Turner—has rivaled the scale of this rebellion either in terms of the number of the slaves involved or in terms of the number who were killed.
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