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Robertson, David., Denmark Vesey: The Buried History of America's Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led It, New York: Knopf, 1999 [ISBN missing] Rubio, Philip F. "Though He Had a White Face, He Was a Negro in Heart": Examining the White Men Convicted of Supporting the 1822 Denmark Vesey Slave Insurrection Conspiracy" , South Carolina ...
The Jail was active after the discovery of Denmark Vesey's planned slave revolt. [3] Although the main trials were held elsewhere, four white men convicted of supporting the 1822 plot were imprisoned here. [citation needed] Tradition holds that Vesey spent his last days in the Jail before being hanged, although no extant document indicates this.
The Denmark Vesey Monument is a monumental statue in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. The monument was erected in 2014 in Hampton Park and honors Denmark Vesey, a freedman who lived in Charleston and was executed in 1822 for plotting a slave revolt. It was designed by American sculptor Ed Dwight.
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion is a 1982 television film about Denmark Vesey, a literate skilled carpenter and former slave who planned a slave rebellion in 1822 in Charleston, South Carolina. Denmark Vesey's Rebellion was produced by WPBT and PBS, and Yaphet Kotto played Vesey.
Vesey's home, listed as 20 Bull Street under the city's former numbering system, is now evidently gone. A nearby home, most likely built in the 1820 and currently numbered 56 Bull Street, was thought in the 1970s to have been the home of Denmark Vesey, and it was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1976 by the Department of Interior.
Historians in the 20th century identified 250 to 311 slave uprisings in U.S. and colonial history. [15] Those after 1776 include: Gabriel's conspiracy (1800) Igbo Landing slave escape and mass suicide (1803) Chatham Manor Rebellion (1805) 1811 German Coast uprising, (1811) [16] George Boxley Rebellion (1815) Denmark Vesey's conspiracy (1822)
Gullah Jack is known for his role as a co-conspirator, along with Denmark Vesey, in planning the rebellion that would become known as Denmark Vesey's slave conspiracy in 1822. [4] Both Vesey and Gullah Jack were involved in some capacity with the AME Church in Charleston. [ 3 ]
These anti-slavery sentiments were popular among both white abolitionists and African-American slaves. Enslaved people rallied around these ideas with rebellions against their masters as well as white bystanders during the Denmark Vesey Conspiracy of 1822 and the Nat Turner's Rebellion of 1831. Leaders and plantation owners were also very ...