Denmark Vesey (c.
1767–1822) is the vault's primary figure for demonstrating the Haitian Revolution's direct influence on enslaved people's political consciousness in the United States. His 1822 conspiracy in Charleston, South Carolina — described by genovese-rebellion-revolution-ch-notes as "the most elaborate insurrectionary plot ever formed by American slaves" — was self-consciously modeled on Haiti, looked to the Haitian state for material support, and was originally planned to begin on B...