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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. [1]
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.
In the United States, the 1811 German Coast Uprising in the Territory of Orleans was the largest rebellion in the continental United States; Denmark Vesey and Madison Washington both launched slave rebellions in the U.S. as well.
Denmark Vesey's conspiracy (1822) Nat Turner's Rebellion (1831) Black Seminole Slave Rebellion (1835–1838) [17] Amistad seizure (1839) [18] 1842 Slave Revolt in the Cherokee Nation [19] Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion (1849) Second Creek Slave Conspiracy (1860) [20]
Denmark Vesey is a former slave in Charleston, South Carolina who has been free for 20 years after buying his freedom. He is literate and a skilled carpenter, one of the founders of an AME church in the city. In 1822 he decides to organize a slave rebellion. Authorities discover the plan and arrest Vesey and many others before the rebellion is ...
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July 14 – Denmark Vesey's planned slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina is suppressed (known also as "The Vesey Conspiracy"). [citation needed] 1827. March 16 - Freedom's Journal, the first African American newspaper in the U.S., begins publication. [citation needed] 1829