On this day in 1822, revolutionary Denmark Vesey planned a slave revolt to take place in South Carolina, intending for thousands of slaves to kill their masters and sail to Haiti; instead, he was betrayed by slaves and executed.
Denmark Vesey (c. 1767 - 1822) was a literate, skilled carpenter and community leader among in Charleston, South Carolina. Likely born into slavery in St. Thomas, Vesey was enslaved by Captain Joseph Vesey in Bermuda.
At the age of 32, he won a lottery and bought his freedom, but was unable to buy the freedom of his wife and children. In 1818 he co-founded an African Methodist Episcopal (AME) congregation in the city, which enjoyed the support of local white clergy. The church attracted 1,848 members, making it the second-largest AME congregation in the nation.
Vesey reportedly began planning the insurrection to take place on Bastille Day, July 14th, 1822, a date notable for its association with the French Revolution, whose victors had abolished slavery in Saint-Domingue.
News of the plan was said to be spread among thousands of black people throughout Charleston and for tens of miles through plantations along the Carolina coast. Two slaves opposed to Vesey's scheme, George Wilson and Joe LaRoche, gave the first specific testimony about a coming uprising to Charleston officials, saying an uprising was planned for July 14th.
In June, Vesey was formally accused of being the leader in "the rising". He was convicted and quickly executed on July 2nd.
In the aftermath of Vesey's and others' convictions, authorities blamed "black religion" for contributing to the uprising, noting Vesey's role in the AME church.
The reverend of the church was driven out of the state. Charleston officials ordered the large congregation to be dispersed and the church building to be razed. No black church officially met in Charleston until after the Civil War.
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There should be a thing like "Six degrees of Kevin bacon" for online content creators but its like "Degrees of working with a nazi" and I bet no ones number would go over 3.
Mine is 2. I recently worked with a woman who was close to retirement. Whenever the topic of military service came up, she'd often mentioned how proud she was of her father's service in the navy in WW2. The German navy. As I don't subscribe to "clean wehrmacht" bullshit, I consider her dad a nazi.
Apparently when he emigrated from Germany to Canada in the late 1940s, he had problems settling in the Maritimes. He "felt unwelcome" to use her words. He was apparently extremely welcome in southern Ontario though.
The fact that so many Germans didn't even have shame enough to lie is proof that Stalin shouldn't have stopped at Berlin
Canada is such a pro Nazi place I'm surprised he felt unwelcome in the maritimes
Lots of Maritimers signed up for service in the military because of extreme poverty, especially after the great depression. Even being a soldier in wartime was seen as a better opportunity than being a farmhand in perpetual poverty. Two of my great-uncles died at Juno Beach. Veterans in the Maritimes may have been very politically conservative by modern standards, but they loathed anyone who was even remotely connected to the German military. Almost everyone on the east coast lost close family in the war.
Every mainstream platform works with nazis so any non-fringe content creator is already at 2 by default.
That feels unfair. We don't count erdos number by whether you work at the same university. It should be individuals. So eg:
Will Menaker -> Andrew Yang -> one of the open white supremacists involved with Yang somehow.
The entire chaposphere -> Brace Belden -> Jeffrey Epstein (close personal friends)
Epstein was just a guy who won the lottery a lot and gave great tax advice though.