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 ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - One of the most sophisticated slave rebellions in our nation’s history was planned for July 14, 1822. It would come to be known as Vesey’s Rebellion, organized by former ...

CHARLESTON — Neighbors along Bull Street and others in Harleston Village successfully petitioned the city’s zoning board to reconsider allowing an addition to be built onto the back of a home that’s ...

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.

Story of Denmark Vesey, who was raised as a slave but bought his freedom. He organized a plot to seize the city and free the black slaves, but this failed and he and others were hanged. Set in ...

A book that strikes at the heart of the recent flare-ups over Confederate symbols in Charlottesville, New Orleans, and elsewhere, Denmark Vesey's Garden reveals the deep roots of these controversies ...