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.See Hamilton, An Account of the Late Intended Insur-rection, –, –, and Kennedy and Parker, An Offi cial Report, –.The informationpublished about Vesey in these accounts is certainly the information Hamilton and the courtwanted the Charleston public to know about Vesey, but a careful reading of the sources suggeststhat, at the least, it is no less accurate than other information given about the alleged leader ofthe aborted insurrection.For a judicious assessment of what historians know and do not knowabout Vesey, see Johnson, “Denmark Vesey and His Co-Conspirators, Part I,” –.See alsoLofton, Insurrection in South Carolina, –.Egerton, He Shall Go Out Free off ers an intrigu-ing overview of Vesey’s life, though Egerton interprets undocumented aspects of Vesey’s liferather freely.N O T E S T O P A G E S 2 1 3 — 2 2 0601 Charleston Gazette, June , . John Potter to Langdon Cheves, June and July , , Langdon Cheves Papers, SCHS. Johnson, “Denmark Vesey and His Co-Conspirators, Part I,” ; Document B: Evidence, .One of the unanswered questions about the investigations is why alleged ringleaders such asVesey and Gell remained at large for nearly a month after the fi rst witness was examined. [William Johnson], “Communication: Melancholy Eff ect of Popular Excitement,” CharlestonCourier, June , . Ibid. Donald G.Morgan, Justice William Johnson, Th e First Dissenter: Th e Career and ConstitutionalPhilosophy of a Jeff ersonian Judge (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, ), –;John Potter to Langdon Cheves, June , , Langdon Cheves Papers, SCHS.An editedversion of all of Potter’s letters appears in Robert S.Starobin, ed., Denmark Vesey: Th e SlaveConspiracy of 1822 (Englewood Cliff s, NJ: Prentice-Hall, ), –. Charleston Courier, June , . Ibid. William Johnson, To the Public of Charleston (Charleston: C.C.Sebring, ). Ibid., –. Ibid., –. Ibid., –. Anna Hayes Johnson to her cousin, June , , Ernest Haywood Papers, SHC.An editedversion of Anna Johnson’s letters appears in Starobin, ed., Denmark Vesey, –. Charleston Courier, June , . Charleston Courier, July , . Ibid. Charleston Southern Patriot, July , . Henry W.DeSaussure to Joel R.Poinsett, July , , Joel R.Poinsett Papers, HSP. Anna Hayes Johnson to her cousin, June , , Ernest Haywood Papers, SHC. Martha Proctor Richardson to James Proctor Screven, July , , Arnold-Screven Papers,SHC.Richardson apparently wrote with Hamilton’s July letter, or a copy of it, in front of herand quoted at length from it.See note for a full explanation of Hamilton’s letter. On Bennett’s pre-gubernatorial career, see Bailey, Morgan, and Taylor, eds., Biographical Direc-tory of the South Carolina Senate, 1776–1985, :–; Craig Miller Bennett, “Family Records ofGovernor Thomas Bennett, Jr.,” South Carolina Historical Magazine ( January ): –,esp.–. Bennett recounted most of these details in his gubernatorial message to the legislature sixmonths later.See Message # of Governor Thomas Bennett to the Senate and House of Rep-resentatives of the State of South Carolina, November , , St , SCDAH.See also,Morgan, Justice William Johnson, –. Johnson, “Denmark Vesey and His Co-Conspirators, Part I,” –.Paquette and Egerton,“Of Facts and Fables,” –, emphasizes that even if owners were not always allowed to visittheir slaves, members of the Charleston clergy were allowed to visit imprisoned blacks fre-quently. Kennedy and Parker, An Offi cial Report, –; see also Document B: Evidence, –. Governor Thomas Bennett to Attorney General Robert Y.Hayne, July , , Governor’sMessages, –, St , #, Document D, SCDAH.602N O T E S T O P A G E S 2 2 0 — 2 2 5 Robert Y.Hayne, Office of the Attorney General, to Governor Thomas Bennett, July , ,Governor’s Messages, –, St , #–, Document E, SCDAH. Again, see note .For the secondhand reporting of Hamilton’s observations, see MarthaProctor Richardson to James Proctor Screven, July , , Arnold-Screven Papers, SHC. Ibid. Ibid. Ibid. At least four blacks almost certainly testifi ed between July and July , when the court wasnot in session, and other witnesses may have testifi ed during these curious “recess” sessions.SeeJohnson, “Denmark Vesey and His Co-Conspirators,” . Charleston Courier, July and , ; Charleston Southern Patriot, July , . Document B: Evidence, – [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]