Denmark Vesey's revolt : the slave plot that lit a fuse to Fort Sumter / John Lofton ; new introduction by Peter C. Hoffer.
In 1822, Denmark Vesey was found guilty of plotting an insurrection--what would have been the biggest slave uprising in U.S. history. A free man of color, he was hanged along with 34 other African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, in what historians agree was probably the largest civil execut...
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