Denmark Vesey: The Buried Story of America's Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led It

In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, David Robertson illuminates the shadowy figure who planned a slave rebellion so daring that, if successful, it might have changed the face of the antebellum South. This is the story of a man who, like Nat Turner, Marcus Garvey, and Malcolm X, is a complex yet seminal hero in the history of African American emancipation.

Denmark Vesey was a charasmatic ex-slave—literate, professional, and relatively well-off—who had purchased his own freedom ...