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Denmark Vesey executed

Denmark Vesey and followers were executed in South Carolina for planning a slave insurrection.

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Denmark Vesey’s insurrection plot

Denmark Vesey, a former slave who had purchased his freedom after winning a lottery, organized an insurrection in Charleston, South Carolina, in May 1822. After several slaves informed their masters of the plot, 131 blacks were arrested and thirty-five hanged.