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For Charlestons Emanuel AME Church, shooting is another painful chapter in rich historyBy Sarah Kaplan
June 18
... From the beginning, the congregation was a focal point of community organizing and anti-slavery activism ... Denmark Vesey, the organizer of one of the nations most notable failed slave uprisings, was a leader in the church. He fiercely and insistently preached that African Americans were the new Israelites, that their enslavement would be punished with death, and in 1822 he and other leaders began plotting a rebellion ... But another member of the church, a slave named George Wilson, told his master about the plot. Nearly three dozen organizers including Vesey were put on trial and executed ...
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)Thanks for sharing this.
captainarizona
(363 posts)Led by my personal hero Captain John Brown of kansas. He showed what a person can do when the abolitionists said nothing can be done! Read Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglas and Henry David Thoreaus responses to john brown's attempt to liberate the slaves. I have written a screen play on what can be done for the children coming across the border. You can read it at my website : thealamoisavenged.com People complain about the title until they read the screenplay then it makes sense to them.
struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)Do you know this classic?
A really great thing about it is the depiction of how organized struggle can change attitudes
BainsBane
(53,003 posts)and Norma Rae.
On slavery, the Cuban film, "La Ultima cena."
struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)I'll have to watch Norma Rae and The Last Supper sometime soon
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)What did democracy look like in 1822? It looked like a slave revolt.
appalachiablue
(41,055 posts)BainsBane
(53,003 posts)I used the first episode, "The Terrible Transformation," when I taught Comparative Slavery classes.
struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)For some reason, the title reminds me of the Elizabeth Freeman case in Massachusetts
I'll look it up
BainsBane
(53,003 posts)Your second video. All four are on YouTube in their entirety, I'm pretty sure.