of our history that wasn't offered in school. One of the events we learned about was a slave revolt in 1822 lead by Denmark Vesey. Some of the slave narratives we read referred to the "African Church" where the planning was done.

Emanuel A.M.E. is that very church (the original church was burned down after the rebellion was ratted out).
That vile, evil, racist terrorist desecrated a historic site that he didn't deserved to set foot in.

I grew up in the A.M.E. Church (not in that city) and was always proud that the founders of the denomination, who began the church in 1787 when they grew tired of being segregated at worship, were proud of who they were and did not deny their roots and kept the word "African" in the name of their church.

There are many today who are so unevolved they still distance themselves from their roots in Africa and even from the term African-American. Sad!

A tangential thought: Anybody else wonder if had the shooter been a black man who shot up a white church would he have been taken alive?

No way!

The final date set for the revolt was 16 June 1822.