Vesey affair, the largest slave rebellion plot in American history,
and which resulted in 35 men being hanged, never existed and the men
who died were innocent. He recently sat down to talk about his
research findings. Hear the story in his own words.
http://www.jhu.edu/news/audio-video/vesey.html
Historian Michael Johnson didn't start out to investigate what has
long been thought of as the largest slave rebellion plot in American
history. But he was troubled when he read a published transcript of a
court case that arose from the supposed conspiracy: One witness is
recorded as testifying about an event that, according to other
sources, hadn't yet happened on the date he testified.
That discrepancy drove Johnson to the archives. The result is a
forthcoming article in the William and Mary Quarterly. Johnson argues
that the Denmark Vesey slave rebellion plot, accounts of which have
long been accepted by historians as real, never actually existed. To
hear in his own words how Johnson unraveled this 179-year-old mystery,
follow the link [.]
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