By James Paul Rice
By spring of 1822, town is rocked with rumors of a violent slave insurrection. Denmark Vesey has geared up a military of insurrectionists throughout the African Methodist Episcopalian church in Charleston and support from the Voodoo Priest Gullah Jack. Vesey's plan: lots of slaves will typhoon the gun shops and arsenals at nighttime on a moonless evening, pilfer guns, burn the town to ashes, kill each white slaveholder within the urban and get away through sail to Haiti or Africa.
Pitted opposed to Charleston's intendant, James H. Hamilton, Jr., Denmark Vesey is going into hiding because the plot starts off to solve. Slaves fold lower than threats and torture and Lucinda's security is threatened because the clash among the strong and the dispossessed grinds towards an inevitable conclusion.
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