Denmark Vesey had three main tactics for attracting support for his slave revolt, religion, fear and intelligence. Vesey was a minister class leader at the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. He used his session of bilblical instruction to put his word out to groups of people. He "tried to prove from it [the Bible] that slavery and bondage is against the Bible (Robertson, 47)." He read from the Bible about "how the children of Israel were delivered out of Egypt from bondage." It was testified at his trial that he "emphasized frequently, and which his black listeners... recalled his applying to their bondage at Charleston

While Vesey's revolt was not successful, his campaigns for support were. "He kept lists of the names and locations of slaves who had declared themselves to him as willing to fight for their freedom, and Vesey's lists were said to contain over ninethousand names." Vesey had a large base of support and, more importantly, they were ready at the first sign of need. After a raid on the AME Church in 1818 where 143 members were arrested, "Gullah Jack sent work to Vesey.. that 'the Gullah people were ready' to under take violent retribution." Despite the failure of the revolt, Vesey's use of religion, fear and intelligence was successful in recruiting support because he appealed to all blacks, slaves and free men, and brought them together for a common cause.

The Civil Rights Movement used a similar approach to unite support. While there was not a large use of fear, there was a large focus on church. In addition to this, the Civil Rights Movement relied heavily on organized passive resistance. Many leaders of the Civil Rights Movement were religious leaders of their time. Men like Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King, Jr were important religious figures that had a great influence over the organiziation of different aspects of the Civil Rights Movement.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. This position gave him the platform to spread his ideas of civil rights to many people. As the leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, he spoke nationally and internationally to civil rights and reiligious leaders around the world and as head of the Montgomery Improvement Association, he was integral in the oganization of successful demonstration against desegregation. The church (since the days of Denmark Vesey and earlier) has always been a source of inspiration for the African American community, and King used the church as a meeting place for the African American community of Montgomery, Alabama where he could address large quanities of black citizens.

Despite the different times and settings of these political movemetns, Denmark Vesey's slave revolt and the Civil Rights Movement had common a common goal: to mobilize the people to fight for equality. They both used commo

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