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	This Far by Faith . Denmark Vesey \| PBS
		In 1771, fourteen-year-old Denmark Vesey was transported from St. Thomas to Cape Francais by slave trader Captain Joseph Vesey.
		Denmark Vesey followed them, leaving the segregated Second Presbyterian Church, where slaves were taught the words of St. Paul: "Servants, obey your masters." In the AME Church, Vesey found the freedom to preach his beliefs.
		Vesey considered leaving Charleston for Africa, but he decided to stay and "see what he could do for his fellow creatures." With a new urgency, he preached that freedom for slaves would be realized, and he began plotting a rebellion.
	www.pbs.org /thisfarbyfaith/people/denmark_vesey.html (897 words)

	Denmark Vesey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Denmark Vesey (originally Telemaque, 1767?-1822) was an African American slave and, later, a freeman, who is alleged to have planned what would have been a large slave rebellion had word of the plans not been leaked.
		In 1781, Vesey was purchased by Captain Joseph Vesey from the Danish Caribbean island of St. Thomas.
		Denmark Vesey is also the name and basis for a character created by Orson Scott Card in the tales of Alvin Maker, a series of books which detail an alternate history of America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Denmark_Vesey (729 words)

	Denmark Vesey
		Denmark Vesey, whose original name was Telemanque, was born in West Africa.
		Vesey, who was "struck with the beauty, alertness, and intelligence" of the boy.
		On June 23 Vesey was hanged on the gallows for plotting to overthrow slavery.
	www.africawithin.com /bios/denmark_vesey.htm (454 words)

	Sterling Stuckey, Denmark Vesey (c.1767-1822)
		Since Denmark was not suited to heavy labor, the captain made him his personal servant, and during the next two years Denmark saw many of the horrors of the slave trade as he sailed with the captain on his voyages between Africa and the West Indies.
		Vesey was a minister of the church and, with his growing family of children and his comfortable house on Bull Street, he was viewed as a respectable member of the community.
		Vesey was well enough remembered at the time of the Civil War to be invoked in the battle cry, but his story has, for the most part, been weakly told or has gone unspoken.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/45a/410.html (1915 words)

	On "Denmark Vesey"
		"Denmark Vesey" is, in my opinion, much more than a simple collage or patchwork of poems, it is a tapestry of experiences that throw light on one another while creating a very strong sense of cohesive whole.
		Vesey’s dream in which the opulent ornaments of white homes are literally crafted from the body parts of slaves rejoins the commodities with the bodies that produced them and releases them from the mystification that has resulted from the moral silence of appropriation.
		If Vesey has been crystallized in the image of the hammer now silent, the coming of the son will unlock the smoldering wrath of the people and be, once again, the word made flesh.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /Maps/poets/g_l/kramer/vesey.html (3087 words)

	Denmark Vesey: Slavery figure's legacy a monumental concern
		Denmark Vesey, a freed slave, was hanged in 1822 with 34 co-conspirators.
		Vesey, a freed slave, was hanged in 1822 with 34 co-conspirators.
		Vesey and his lieutenants were arrested and within days tried by a city court.
	afgen.com /denmark_vesey.html (1377 words)

	To Live as Slaves, or Die as Men?
		Because of this incredible circumstance, Denmark Vesey was able to plan the largest slave rebellion ever organized in the United States.
		No one knows for sure where Denmark Vesey was born, but it is clear that he was enslaved on the Caribbean islands by the time he was 14.
		Denmark's luck changed for the worse when he was hanged on July 2 for attempting to incite a revolution against the established government.
	www.ustrek.org /odyssey/semester1/120200/120200beckyvesey.html (1202 words)

	Floridian: Reclaiming history from the hangman
		According to testimony at Denmark Vesey's trial, Capt. Vesey and his officers were impressed by the beauty and intelligence of a 14-year-old boy among their slave cargo whom they unanimously adopted into the cabin as a pet.
		Denmark learned various languages as he sailed with the captain around the world, a skill that would later be useful in communicating his insurrection plan to slaves from different tribes throughout low-country South Carolina.
		Vesey bought his freedom for $600, bought a home in the same neighborhood where the governor lived, and set up trade as a carpenter.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/02/15/Floridian/Reclaiming_history_fr.shtml (1526 words)

	denmark vesey and his co
		Gell explained that "Vesey said he would appoint his leaders and places of meeting about one week before the 16th of June, but the meeting for this purpose was prevented by the Capture of some of the principals before that period." In other words, Gell said that Vesey never got around to appointing his lieutenants.
		But even if Vesey knew the provisions of the 1820 law, it is still possible he read the news that "on the subject of Emancipation an act will probably pass" as an announcement that the legislature was about to take the very action required by the 1820 law.
		Vesey, it appears, was the victim of a conspiracy of collusion between the white court and its cooperative fl witnesses, both eager for their own reasons to pay homage to the enduring power of white supremacy.
	www.ipoaa.com /denmark_vesey__and_his_co2.htm (5472 words)

	Review of Douglas R. Egerton, He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey
		Although Vesey’s plot was revealed before a single master could be attacked and although Vesey was put to death along with thirty-four fellow conspirators, Egerton begins his book on a positive note.
		Vesey’s life, we are led to expect, somehow contributed to and reflected a vibrant sense of African American racial solidarity.
		Responding to the charge that Vesey was a domineering polygamist, for example, Egerton suggests that he did not have more than one wife at the same time and that he loved and looked after his children.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/45a/396.html (4139 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Black History - Biographies - Denmark Vesey
		Vesey's example must be regarded as one of the most courageous ever to threaten the racist foundations of America.
		As a personal slave, Denmark Vesey lived a comparatively comfortable life — far better than slaves working on plantations — and he had a certain amount of freedom to come and go as he pleased.
		The immediate effect of Vesey's insurrection was that life became far worse for the fl population of South Carolina.
	www.gale.com /free_resources/bhm/bio/vesey_d.htm (2222 words)

	History House: Denmark Vesey: Book Review
		Denmark Vesey tells the story of a freed slave cum insurrectionist as conflicted as the society he sought to eradicate.
		Denmark Vesey had, astonishingly, won the lottery at a tender age and purchased his own freedom.
		On top of all this, the fiscally- and vocationally-stable Denmark Vesey was some sixty years of age when he put this together.
	www.historyhouse.com /book/067944288X (820 words)

	Vesey, Denmark - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Accused by informers, Vesey was hanged along with 34 slaves.
		Denmark Vesey: The Buried History of America's Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led It.
		Designs against Charleston: The Trial Record of the Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy of 1822.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-vesey-d1e.html (329 words)

	Amazon.com: Denmark Vesey: Books: David M. Robertson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Vesey was a fascinating part of the history of Charleston and the history of this nation.
		Vesey's appearance is unknown except for the most impressionistic of drawings; the man visually is an enigma.
		Vesey planned, and the historical record was systematically destroyed to the extent possible.
	www.amazon.com /Denmark-Vesey-David-M-Robertson/dp/067944288X (2366 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews - "Denmark" - 10/18/06
		Denmark avoids the usual clichés of abolitionist drama to explore a larger theme of the nature and sources of personal heroism, for, unlike the majority of slaves of their time, most of the African-Americans in this play have a generally comfortable life and have much to lose by opposing their oppressor.
		Denmark Vesey is a privileged, well-educated slave, valued so highly by his master Captain Joseph Vesey, that he is given a cash bonus of $1.00 after a particularly successful voyage.
		The action opens on Denmark in custody for his leadership of the planned revolt, and the set supports the suggestion that the story, told in flashback, is being relived by Denmark as he awaits his fate.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/chicago/ch111.html (959 words)

	vesey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Denmark Vesey come to Charleston from de West Indies wid his owner, Cap' Vesey, a rich, white importer of Charleston.
		He tell Vesey he was takin' too big a dare and dat de plan was too dangerous and a wrong step wid it.
		"Vesey take hand as his own lawyer, but wid all his skill, him and 34 others of de rebels, was convicted and hanged.
	www.history.uiuc.edu /fac_dir/burton_dir/vesey.html (717 words)

	Denmark Vesey: A New Verdict
		At a conference on Denmark Vesey in Charleston in March 2001, Johnson presented new evidence demonstrating that Vesey did not organize a rebellion of Charleston's slaves back in 1822.
		Denmark Vesey was a free fl carpenter in Charleston who was executed in 1822 for organizing South Carolina slaves to rise up.
		The choice faced by Vesey and the accused slaves was a terrible one: Testify falsely against the other accused men and live, or refuse to testify falsely and die.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20020311/wiener (814 words)

	Africans in America/Part 3/The Vesey Conspiracy
		The city's suppression of the African Church, which boasted a membership of over three thousand in 1820, provided the catalyst for revolt; Denmark Vesey began using his position as a respected free man and Methodist leader to organize other free and enslaved fls.
		Among Vesey's co-conspirators was Gullah Jack Pritchard, an African priest from Mozambique.
		On the day of Vesey's execution, state militia and federal troops had to be called out to contain a demonstration by fl supporters.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aia/part3/3p2976.html (296 words)

	Vesey Reviews
		The Vesey revolt shattered the paternalist presumptions of Charleston’s slaveholders and laid bare the reality asserted long before by John Locke: that slavery is the state of war continued between captive and captor.
		Telemaque, from which "Denmark" appears to be a corruption (pointing also to Vesey’s origins in the Danish West Indies), is the French version of "Telemachus," the son of Odysseus and a major character in Homer’s Odyssey, not the Iliad.
		Likewise, although Pearson’s notes to Vesey’s numerous Biblical references are generally adequate, it is clear he has little of the first-hand acquaintance with the text that would enable a rich and nuanced interpretation of Vesey’s theology of deliverance.
	northstar.vassar.edu /volume3/vesey.html (2297 words)

	Profiles In Black Class 4 Denmark Vesey
		As the magnitude of the conspiracy was revealed, the grand illusion of the happy slave was blown to smithereens, and the name Denmark Vesey was to excite bitterness and fear among whites for decades to come.
		Denmark Vesey realized that organized resistance and organized plans are necessary if Black People are to relieve themselves of the inequalities and hostilities which are heaped on them daily.
		Denmark Vesey, with foresight and patience, attempted to lay the foundation for that organization.
	www.asetbooks.com /Us/AsetU/Courses/ProsInBlack/PIF4.html (1197 words)

	Denmark Vesey Summary
		Denmark Vesey (originally Telemanque, 1767-1822) was an African American slave and entrepreneur who planned what would have been a large slave rebellion had word of the plans not been leaked.
		Vesey was taken from the Caribbean island of St. Thomas through Saint Domingue (present day Haiti) to South Carolina as a youth, where he was forced into slavery.
		During the American Civil War, Frederick Douglass used Vesey's name as a battlecry to rally African-American regiments, especially the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.
	www.bookrags.com /Denmark_Vesey (793 words)

	Denmark Vesey Biography (Carpenter/Antislavery Activist) — Infoplease.com
		On July 2, 1822 former slave Denmark Vesey was executed after being tried as the leader of a conspiracy to violently rebel against slaveowners and other whites in Charleston, South Carolina.
		Vesey was a well-respected carpenter, minister and former household slave who had been sold into slavery from the island of St. Thomas (in the West Indies) when he was in his teens.
		Denmark Vesey: The Buried Story of America's Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led It by David M. Robertson
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/denmarkvesey.html (377 words)

	Vesey Denmark - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Vesey, Denmark (quotations): Rebellion: We are free but the…
		We are free but the white people here won't let us be so, and the only way is to rise up and fight the whites.
		Denmark, constitutional monarchy, north-western Europe, the southernmost of the Scandinavian countries.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Vesey_Denmark.html (104 words)

	The Ghost of Denmark Vesey: Black Labor, Southern Politics, and the Case of the Charleston Five
		IT WAS IN 1821 that a recently freed slave in Charleston, Denmark Vesey, having bought his way out of chains, began planning a slave revolt to free the rest.
		Vesey had originally planned to spark rebellion throughout South Carolina through agitation, which would hopefully spread to undermine the South's entire plantation complex.
		Once Vesey's intricate plan became known, it struck fear into the planter class; the public execution of Vesey and his compatriots was seen as critical in convincing slaves across the South to think twice before daring to act for their freedom.
	www.commondreams.org /views01/0707-05.htm (2149 words)

	Charleston - FEATURE \| 'Terrorist' or 'Freedom Fighter'? - Efforts to honor Denmark Vesey running into financial, ...
		Depending on which side of the social divide a person stands, Denmark Vesey is either a freedom fighter or a terrorist.
		A group of historians and intellectuals, spearheaded by the 10-member Denmark Vesey Spirit of Freedom Monument Committee, is hoping a memorial to the rebellious leader will soon be erected in Hampton Park.
		Because Vesey's story is hazy and no images exist, Smart supports a conceptual rather than a representational statue.
	www.charlestoncitypaper.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:12284 (1179 words)

	Confession of Bacchus
		That Denmark after ascertaining it was Perault and another man (as Perault said to D) he went with them into the house.
		Perault and Denmark then took me in a side room; and Perault says to me, “Bacchus I have some particular thing to say to you; I asked what it was he said “that they were going to have war and fight the white people” and that I must join them.
		Denmark then said “any person who don’t join us must be treated as an enemy and put to death”; and I said if that is the case, well I will join you.
	www.nathanielturner.com /introductiontodenmarkvesey3.htm (1142 words)

	The Johns Hopkins Gazette: October 22, 2001
		The Denmark Vesey affair has been commonly accepted as the largest slave rebellion plot in American history--one that resulted in the hanging of Vesey, a free fl, and 34 slaves in Charleston, S.C., in the summer of 1822, perhaps the largest civilian execution in U.S. history.
		Ostensibly planned by Vesey, a carpenter, the conspiracy allegedly called on the slaves and free fls of Charleston and its surrounding countryside to rise up, seize local munitions stores and slaughter the white population before leaving on ships bound for Haiti.
		While the court that sentenced Vesey to death branded him the leader of the conspiracy, Johnson argues that Vesey was simply a free fl who could read and who was not shy about speaking his mind, often quoting the Bible to prove the injustice of slavery, which made both fls and whites uncomfortable.
	www.jhu.edu /~gazette/2001/22oct01/22sleuth.html (951 words)

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