Planning the uprising to occur during Bastille Day (or French National Day) on July 14, 1822, Vesey hoped to liberate slaves and slay slave owners. He would help to create a branch of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, but his building was shuttered by white authorities.Īngered by the closing of his church and finding inspiration in the 1791 Haitian Revolution, Vesey would begin planting seeds to start a similar revolution among the slaves in Charleston. Winning a large sum of cash, Vesey would buy his freedom and begin working in the trade of carpentry. He eventually moved to the city of Charleston in South Carolina as a youth. 6 Capitol Riotsĭenmark Vesey was born a slave in the Caribbean and worked in the country of Haiti (then known as French Saint-Domingue). MORE: Slave Uprisings Were Legitimate Insurrections, Unlike Jan. On J201 years ago today - thousands of African slaves were betrayed by their own after the plot was revealed, resulting in dozens of executions.
But the Denmark Vesey conspiracy, however, is also notable if for nothing else than the sheer number of slaves involved and how a simple, cowardly confession from fearful members of the revolution foiled Vesey’s epic plot.
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