On July 2, 1822, Denmark Vesey was hanged in Charleston, S.C., for
his role in planning one of the largest slave uprisings in the
United States. During his long, extraordinary life Vesey played
many roles-Caribbean field hand, cabin boy, chandler's man, house
servant, proud freeman, carpenter, husband, father, church leader,
abolitionist, revolutionary. Yet until his execution transformed
him into a symbol of liberty, Vesey made it his life's work to
avoid the attention of white authorities. Because he preferred to
dwell in the hidden alleys of Charleston's slave community, Vesey
remains as elusive as he is today celebrated, and his legend is
often mistaken for fact. In this biography of the great rebel
leader, Douglas R. Egerton employs a variety of historical
sources-church records, court documents, travel accounts, and
newspapers from America and Saint Domingue-to recreate the lost
world of the mysterious Vesey. The revised and updated edition
reflects the most recent scholarship on Vesey, and a new afterword
by the author explores the current debate about the existence of
the 1822 conspiracy. If Vesey's plot was unique in the annals of
slave rebellions in North America, it was because he was unique;
his goals, as well as the methods he chose to achieve them, were
the product of a hard life's experience.
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