Walter Edgar's Journal
Denmark Vesey Only Part of a Complex Story of 19th Century Black Charlestonians
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:49:29
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Synopsis
There's a long history to the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., — affectionately known as "Mother Emanuel" — where nine churchgoers were allegedly shot and killed by 21-year-old Dylann Roof on Wednesday night. Part of that history involves Denmark Vesey, a West Indian slave, and later a freedman, who planned what would have been one of the largest slave rebellions in the United States had word of the plans not been leaked.