That’s a question that confronts historians who study the story of Denmark Vesey ... a life-size statue of Vesey in Charleston. To some, as one New York Times op-ed put it, he was an ...

Denmark Vesey, a co-founder of the Emanuel African ... In an op-ed in The New York Times in 2014, Egerton describes a scene in which Vesey discussed the men who owned his wife and family with ...