Biography
Denmark Vesey was the free Black carpenter prosecuted and executed after the alleged planned 1822 Charleston slave insurrection. Otto Hall’s retrospective article describes Vesey acting as his own lawyer, cross-examining witnesses and declining to implicate others. The article’s uncertain Haiti birthplace account and aggregate execution counts are not adopted as individual facts. That retrospective does not supply exact individual dates or a complete custody duration. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1934/v10n02-feb-1934-lab-def.pdf#page=13
The execution calendar in the contemporary official report of the Charleston trials names Denmark Vesey among the first group hanged near Charleston on July 2, 1822. The Library of Congress provides an accessible transcription of this report. Source: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/rbc/rbcmisc/lst/lst0101/lst0101.pdf
The execution calendar in the contemporary official report of the Charleston trials names Denmark Vesey among the first group hanged near Charleston on July 2, 1822. The Library of Congress provides an accessible transcription of this report.