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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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[-] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

They say that before you die, all your deleted posts flash before your eyes

[-] wombat@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

it is july 14 and stalin saved the world from fascism

[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago
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[-] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

Deltarune players when they look up the title of the third song on the Undertale OST tate-fear

[-] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

Floweys theme? blob-no-thoughts

[-] Keld@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

Its not enough that elsevier sits like a fucking dragon hoarding information and preventing any legitimate use of it, while allowing and engaging in commercial scraping of the same data for generative AI use. All their tools don't fucking work.

[-] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

i felt your gay aura 10 scrolls away

just made some rosticciana with risotto and asparagus that is better than the $50 a plate shit I was serving at a french restaurant over the weekend

[-] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

supes spoiler

Loved how not-israelis fucked themselves over by agreeing with lex plan distract superman. Like congrats instead of just getting relatively unschated because superman is so powerful he doesnt need to hurt anyone to stop wars, you instead get a bunch of superheroes who are far more willing to kill and hurt human soldiers.

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[-] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

::: spoiler Anime Talk

The latest discourse was about anime about this one anime “filtering out the normies” and it’s just about a high school girl who meets a voluptuous graduate student who teaches her about rocks.

But it’s funny following the discussions like “yeah dude, that’s a 24 year old, you’re supposed to be having thoughts about adult women. Great own.”

And it’s not even really fan service, she’s wearing a tucked in shirt and high waisted jeans and acting like a mature person pursuing her higher education. It’s like watching the most depraved people twist themselves into liking a sensible character because she’s stacked—as the kids say. Brave stance, I am being very owner right now.

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[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

if you text message someone and then block their number immediately afterwards, can you unblock them in a couple days and see any messages they sent you in the interim?

I'm kinda being pressed into contacting an abusive parent and I'd like the ability to control the resulting anxiety

[-] stink@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 week ago

It does not. Could you try an email instead?

[-] Keld@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

I know that doesn't work with my phone and texting (A samsung phone and the default texting service) . It's might depend on the messaging service or specific phone.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So is PSL action network good? It seems good for someone like me who doesn't have their shit together enough for PSL proper yet.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Wikipeets where its wikifeet for paws

[-] toarmspunies@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Got to play beach volleyball for the first time in years today. What an incredible sport. Wish I could play every day.

[-] wombat@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

it is july 15 and stalin saved the world from fascism

[-] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

shrugging off the weight of my sins sans-shrug

sins aren't real anyway

[-] CocteauChameleons@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Being a socdem makes you a tankie [Mitterrand was a French President for context]

[-] Keld@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Its true that mitterand, being a pre 1990s social democrat with historic ties to two separate explicitly anti communist organisations would be called a tankie by today's standards.

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

These people have literally zero conception of historical processes. This is the president who is most famous for presiding over the period where the French Communists were completely dismantled and their membership transmuted into the Capital-friendly European Socialists we know today, but they are only capable of conceiving of the things he did in a contextless bubble.

[-] Grebgreb@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

i asked this a while ago but can anyone recommend me a keyboard with a large left control key

i am currently using the logitech washable but mine is really old: https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Washable-Wired-Keyboard-K310/dp/B008D1JRIO

i don't care about rgb or mechanical

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[-] Keld@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Elsevier stop sucking shit challenge

[-] dougfir@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

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spoilerkind of cheated with the tritium one, i guessed helium 2, just a complete guess, and it suggested the right answer so i took it lol. didn't know that qr codes were invented in '94

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

(you do get a lib word pass at me, three times my 3d printing for a shroud failed over the weekend)

[-] Keld@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If you call a museum a "museion" (Or any variation thereof) fines should be levied.

[-] RION@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

So tiyord... I know I'm choosing to get to work at 7:30 because getting out at 4 is such a boost to my mental, but it really makes the morning blow

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[-] Cowbee@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago
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[-] ComradeSpahija@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

General Megathread for the 16th-17th of Chapomber Year 5

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