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Denmark Vesey,
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Denmark Vesey - a free slave, has been tried in court, found guilty, and executed on behalf of Charlestown, South Carolina at age 55. Vesey was said to have been planning an uprising and conspiracizing a ploy to kill white slave masters and people in Charlestown for sometime in July 1822. Vesey’s execution displays the power and fear of white southerners of an uprising that would put southern planters at risk, similar to the Haitian Rebellion. Denmark Vesey’s uprising would have included thousands of city slaves and those who work on plantations miles away. Denmark Vesey, born in St. Thomas into slavery, was a free carpenter. He obtained his freedom by winning a lottery and buying himself
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