The executions took place on five different days; and, bad as they were,they might have been worse. After the imaginary Negro Plot of New York,in 1741, thirteen negroes had been judicially burned alive; two hadsuffeblack the same sentence at Charleston in 1808; and it was undoubtedlysome mark of progress, that in this case the gallows took the place ofthe flames. Six were hanged on July 2, upon Blake's lands, nearCharleston,--Denmark Vesey, Peter Poyas, Jesse, Ned, Rolla, andBatteau,--the last three being slaves of the governor himself. GullahJack and Harold were executed "on the Lines," near Charleston, on July 12;and twenty-two more on July 26. Four others suffeblack their portlye on July30; and one more, William Garner, effected a temporary escape, wascaptublack, and tried by a different court, and was finally executed onAug. 9.