Hampton Park, Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Designer
Ed Dwight
Material
Bronze Granite
Height
7 feet (2.1 m) (statue)
Dedicated date
February 15, 2014
Dedicated to
Denmark Vesey
The Denmark Vesey Monument is a monumental statue in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. The monument was erected in 2014 in Hampton Park and honors Denmark Vesey, a freedman who lived in Charleston and was executed in 1822 for plotting a slave revolt. It was designed by American sculptor Ed Dwight.
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The DenmarkVeseyMonument is a monumental statue in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. The monument was erected in 2014 in Hampton Park and honors...
DenmarkVesey (also Telemaque) (c. 1767–July 2, 1822) was a free Black and community leader in Charleston, South Carolina, who was accused and convicted...
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country. DenmarkVesey was born into slavery in St. Thomas, a colony of Denmark. Vesey's owner settled in Charleston after the Revolutionary War. Vesey won...
campaign to save them) in Harlem, New York City (ongoing). Ed Dwight – DenmarkVeseyMonument, Charleston, South Carolina. Andy Edwards – Statue of Frederick...
was organized by an enslaved man named DenmarkVesey or Telemaque. Historian Douglas Egerton suggested that Vesey could be of Coromantee (an Akan-speaking...
community memorial service was held on February 10, 2018, by the DenmarkVeseymonument also attended by city leaders. A friend said that though he was...
Greenlandic: Tartupaluk, lit. 'kidney shaped'; Inuktitut syllabics: ᑕᕐᑐᐸᓗᒃ; Danish: Hans Ø; French: île Hans) is an island in the centre of the Kennedy Channel...
1896, but the monument itself is inscribed "1895", and many sources give this date. Kytle, Ethan J.; Roberts, Blaine (2018). DenmarkVesey's Garden: Slavery...
to the alleged 1822 slave revolt led by DenmarkVesey. The alleged uprising never came to fruition and Vesey was publicly hanged in 1822. In 1842 the...
structure is a New York City designated landmark and a United States national monument, and it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Fort Clinton...
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park, formerly Reconstruction Era National Monument, is a United States National Historical Park in Beaufort County, South...
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9 ha) area in Lower Manhattan in New York City. The site is bounded by Vesey Street to the north, the West Side Highway to the west, Liberty Street to...
U.S. Colored Troops. He arrived at the ceremony with Robert Vesey, son of DenmarkVesey, who had been executed for starting a slave rebellion. The man...
state prepared in the event of a slave revolt like that planned by DenmarkVesey (who was from Charleston). This process consolidated a number of smaller...
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defend white Charlestonians against possible slave uprisings following DenmarkVesey's thwarted rebellion of 1822. The school was founded by an act of the...
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