Saga of Denmark Vesey

Oh freedom, oh freedom, oh freedom over me. And before I'd be a slave, I'd be buried in my grave, and go home to my Lord and be free. Destination Freedom.

The Chicago Defender and Station WMAQ bring you Destination Freedom. A new radio series dramatizing the great democratic tradition of the Negro people interwoven in the pageant of history and a part of America's own Destination Freedom.

Today, destination freedom tells the story of the daring Denmark Vise and fought for the end of slavery twenty years before John Brown and the Civil War. Denmark Vise. They say slaveholders' court was crowded that day in Charleston.

They say the culprit was caught in the act. It conceded the crowd. They say all was over with the hang, and soon the masters could sleep, could rest. He'll look up! Vader, can't you get on her?

You heard the judge? Only in the court! Hold her! Ah! Let the prisoner come before the bench to be sentenced. He's coming. They grab anybody, walk straight. He's a cool one. He'll be a dead one in an hour.

He'll walk no more. more he'll hang for all the work and he's done. Clerk, read out the record of his crimes. They say he walked as though the world watched him. They say the clerk read out his crimes.

They say a gamble was the beginning of it. A gamble one night at a carnival when he bought a $40 play on a locker room and stood under the tent while the barter called in the books.

The greatest raffle in history. Get your bet in folks, get them in. That's all, we're off. As he goes round and round and wears his top, nobody knows. The greatest gamble in history. Round and round and she's stopping.