Denmark Vesey was a freeman who organized a slave rebellion that was thwarted when news of it was leaked. He ultimately was hanged. A bicentennial celebration was held earlier in July for Vesey. A man ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A former slave’s attempt to lead a rebellion in Charleston during the summer of 1822 would forever alter life in the Lowcountry, even though the uprising never occurred.

Michelle Vesey grew up soaking in her family lore about a courageous ancestor who had tried to lead a slave insurrection in Charleston — and was hanged for it. She also learned it was up to them to ...

Religion played a central role in debates over slavery in 19th-century America. Yet few people know how a formerly enslaved man named Denmark Vesey reimagined the role that the Bible played in these ...

In March 1863, three months after the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, Frederick Douglass barnstormed across the Northeast encouraging Black men to enlist in the Union army. In his ...

CHARLESTON — A city board rejected a request to build an additional bedroom suite onto the back of the Harleston Village home associated with Denmark Vesey after neighbors mounted opposition. But the ...

A man who lost his life fighting for freedom is being celebrated this month in the city where he was executed. You may not have heard of Denmark Vesey, who inspired abolitionists like Frederick ...

Denmark Vesey was a freeman who organized a slave rebellion that was thwarted when news of it was leaked. He ultimately was hanged. A bicentennial... Freedom fighter Denmark Vesey is being honored in ...