The Trial Record of Denmark Vesey (BP 358)

xxi, 157 pp. "Although historians argue about the number and nature of American slave uprisings, there is no argument about the importance of the separate efforts of Nat Turner, Gabriel Prosser, and Denmark Vesey. In 1822, Vesey and a large group he had recruited planned to burn Charleston, South Carolina, then the sixth largest city in the nation. The plot was found out before the plan was executed, and after a series of trials 35 blacks (including Vesey) were hanged and 43 transported."