🟦 CATEGORY 1: WHO WAS DENMARK VESEY?
This Caribbean island was where Denmark Vesey was originally enslaved.
➡️ What is St. Thomas?
This church allowed Black worshippers to lead themselves and preach freely.
➡️ What is the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church?
This book of the Bible tells the story of enslaved people being freed.
➡️ What is Exodus?
The rebellion was planned to take place in this year.
➡️ What is 1822?
Gullah Jack was known as this type of spiritual leader.
➡️ What is an African priest or healer?
Denmark Vesey gained his freedom in 1799 by doing this.
➡️ What is winning the lottery and buying his freedom?
This message was commonly taught to enslaved people in white churches.
➡️ What is “servants should obey their masters”?
Vesey taught that enslaved Black people were this biblical group.
➡️ Who are the Israelites?
This was the planned date for the uprising in Charleston.
➡️ What is July 14?
He helped recruit enslaved people from these locations.
➡️ What are surrounding plantations?
Even after gaining freedom, Vesey still faced this injustice involving his family.
➡️ What is being unable to free his wife and children?
More than 4,000 Black Charlestonians left white churches after whites did this.
➡️ What is restricting Black autonomy and disrespecting Black burial grounds?
The Exodus story symbolized this for Vesey’s followers.
➡️ What is liberation from bondage?
Conspirators planned to seize these locations to get weapons.
➡️ What are arsenals and guard houses?
These objects were given to conspirators for spiritual protection.
➡️ What are amulets (crab claws)?
This early experience traveling with Captain Vesey exposed Denmark to the wider Atlantic world.
➡️ What are slave-trading voyages?
Vesey became a leader in the AME Church with this role.
➡️ What is a class leader?
White slaveholders preferred teaching from this part of the Bible.
➡️ What is the New Testament?
The rebels planned to escape to this country after the revolt.
➡️ What is Haiti?
Gullah Jack’s rituals helped enslaved people feel this.
➡️ What is empowered and united?
Vesey’s personal experience with freedom helped shape his belief that slavery was this.
➡️ What is immoral and meant to be destroyed?
White authorities closely monitored Black churches because they feared this.
➡️ What is organized Black resistance and independent thought?
This spiritual song tradition is sometimes linked to Vesey’s teachings.
➡️ What is “Go Down, Moses”?
This combination of belief systems inspired many enslaved people to join.
➡️ What are Christianity and African spiritual traditions?
Why was Gullah Jack especially influential among African-born enslaved people?
➡️ What is his connection to African spiritual traditions?