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I can only take a dose of television news. However, there is always one heart-wrenching story that cuts through the dung. This week, it has to be the massacre in Charleston, South Carolina. The killings of nine people occurred in the basement of Emmanuel AME Church, the oldest church in the southern US, founded in 1816.
Denmark Vesey, a former slave, was a founding member of Emmanuel AME. In 1821, he started organizing a slave rebellion. The authorities discovered the plot and snuffed it out, but not before mass hysteria circulated throughout the South amongst slave owners.
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