During the trials, one of the rebels said that he had done nothing more than what Washington had done, that he had ventured his life for his countrymen, and that he was a willing sacrifice.
In Charleston, South Carolina, a young slave named Denmark Vesey won $1,500 in a lottery with which he purchased his freedom.

During the following years he worked as a carpenter.

In his concern over the plight of his slave brethren, he formed a plan for an insurrection which would bring them their freedom.

He and other freedmen collected two hundred pike heads and bayonets as well as three hundred daggers to use in the revolt, but, before the plans could be put into motion in 1882, a slave informed on them.

This time it was rumored that there had been some nine thousand involved in the plot.