Denmark Vesey Affair
A vast collection of documents that illuminate one of the most sophisticated acts of collective slave resistance in the history of the U.S.
In 1822, thirty-four slaves and their leader, a free black man named Denmark Vesey, were tried and executed for "attempting to raise an insurrection" in Charleston, South Carolina. In The Denmark Vesey Affair, Douglas Egerton and Robert Paquette annotate a...
A vast collection of documents that illuminate one of the most sophisticated acts of collective slave resistance in the history of the U.S.
In 1822, thirty-four slaves and their leader, a free black man named Denmark Vesey, were tried and executed for "attempting to raise an insurrection" in Charleston, South Carolina. In The Denmark Vesey Affair, Douglas Egerton and Robert Paquette annotate a...