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Bookmark or Share- Denmark Vesey | Biography, Slave Rebellion, Death, & Facts | BritannicaDenmark 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.
- Denmark Vesey - WikipediaDenmark 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. [1]
- Denmark Vesey - Teachinghistory.orgDenmark Vesey Between June 19 and August 6, 1822, the Charleston, SC, Court of Magistrates and Freeholders interrogated, tortured, and tried in closed sessions over 100 African Americans as co-conspirators in a planned slave rebellion.
- Denmark Vesey, Leader of a Foiled Revolt by Enslaved People - ThoughtCoKnown 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.
- Denmark Vesey's slave revolt was thwarted. His legacy is honored - NPRDenmark Vesey's story was long left out of schoolbooks in South Carolina by those who argued the Civil War was over state's rights, not slavery. And...
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