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ABOUT THE BOOK On July 2, 1822, a free Black pastor named Denmark Vesey was hanged in Charleston, South Carolina. Vesey had supposedly masterminded what would have been the largest slave revolt in American history, but he was betrayed by one of his co-conspirators. Though several of Veseyâ??s children were implicated in the plot, his twenty-two-year-old son Robert escaped punishment