Tag: Denmark Vesey
Two Men From Charleston – The Gantt Report
AFRICANGLOBE - It is no surprise to me that worshipers at the church in South Carolina that had Denmark Vesey as one of its founders was the place chosen by a white racist to be the place where he would murder innocent Black people. Most of us are church people like Denmark Vesey was but we know oftentimes “proper limits” might have to be exceeded in order to right a wrong in South Carolina or in any other place in the world. Sometimes marching and praying might not be all that needs to be done.
Real Leaders Are Poor – The Gantt Report
AFRICANGLOBE - Around the time of 1822, a South Carolina slavery day community activist named Denmark Vesey organized about 4000 slaves to carry out a planned slave revolt. Of course, the revolt by Vesey and his fellow fighters was thwarted when one of the slaves ran to the slave masters and warned them what was about to happen.
