When South Carolina Massacred Members Of The Charleston Emanuel AME Church

[LiberalArkie]

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/20/state-massacred-members-charleston-emanuel-ame-church/



Nearly two centuries before Dylann Roof, the state of South Carolina conducted its own massacre of Emanuel AME Church members.

Roof, who embraced white supremacy, killed nine church members Wednesday evening. The white supremacist-controlled state of South Carolina killed 35.

The earlier massacre was in 1822, six years after the congregation was founded.

A freed slave named Denmark Vesey was accused of plotting a slave revolt. State prosecutors charged that Vesey, along with other organizers, had used evening sermons at Emanuel AME to organize congregation members to rebel against their white masters.

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[heaven05]

1. long, long

history of racism and murder in that state, the south, the nation. Still gong on. In this case 1822-2015=193 years. And even the POTUS acknowledges this fact. I read about the Denmark Vesey "slave revolt" many years ago during my 'black studies' in college. 40+ years ago. I'm going to revisit that era and start relating it to the LEO executions and abuse of POC.

"they were especially apprehensive following revolts and conspiracies in the 19th century, such as the Gabriel plot in 1800, the revolt in Louisiana in 1811, the Denmark Vesey conspiracy in 1822 and the Nat Turner revolt in 1831", Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation. John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger. New York Oxford Press 1999. on edit:thanks math checker