noun
United States freed slave and insurrectionist in South Carolina who was involved in planning an uprising of slaves and was hanged (1767-1822)
• Syn: ↑Denmark Vesey
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑slave, ↑insurgent, ↑insurrectionist, ↑freedom fighter, ↑rebel
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/vee"zee/, n.
Denmark, 1767-1822, black freedman, born probably on St. Thomas, Danish West Indies: hanged as alleged leader of a slave insurrection, in Charleston, S.C.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.