Negro plot
Subtitle: an account of the late intended insurrection among a portion of the blacks of the city of Charleston, South Carolina
By: Hamilton, James, 1786-1857
Contributors: Charleston (S.C.). City Council; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: History; African Americans; Slave insurrections; Slavery; Slaves
Other titles: Account of the late intended insurrection among a portion of the blacks of the city of Charleston, South Carolina; Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: Negro Plot is the official account published by the city of Charleston of the attempted Denmark Vesey slave insurrection of June 1822. Hamilton, Intendant of Charleston at the time reports how the plot was initiated and then foiled by city officials. He gives a brief account of the trials: one hundred and thirty-one slaves were arrested, thirty-five were executed, and thirty-seven were exiled from the country. The appendices of the book present some of the direct testimonies and confessions, as well as the verdicts of the court.
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This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The Church in the Southern Black community.

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Transcribed from: Negro plot : an account of the late intended insurrection among a portion of the blacks of the city of Charleston, South Carolina. 2nd ed. Boston : Printed and published by Joseph W. Ingraham, 1822. 50 p. ; 24 cm. The pamphlet was first published as: Charleston, S.C. An account of the late intended insurrection among a portion of the blacks of this city. ... Charleston, S.C., Printed by A.E. Miller, 1822. Prepared by James Hamilton, Jr., intendant (mayor) of the city of Charleston, at the request of the City Council. The proposed insurrection was headed by Telmaque or "Denmark" Vesey. Published by the authority of the Corporation of Charleston.

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