jul 2, 1822 - Denmark Vesey Executed

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Denmark Vesey was an African American freedman in Charleston, South Carolina, who planned a major slave rebellion in 1822. His plot was discovered before it could be executed, leading to the arrest and execution of Vesey and thirty-five others, and it heightened fears of slave uprisings among white Southerners, leading to stricter enforcement of slavery laws and restrictions on African American populations.

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