InnerVisions Productions LLC Releases Telemaque: The Vesey Plot.

Hackensack, New Jersey---February 15, 2002- InnerVisions Productions LLC released their groundbreaking documentary on the insurrection lead by Denmark Vesey (Telemaque) in South Carolina, USA. First created to be viewed solely via the web, InnerVisions Productions thought that the project could be better appreciated if people could watch the video on their own TV's. To this end Telemaque: The Vesey Plot was released on a DVD player compatible disk known as a VCD. This disk plays in most players ( go to www.innervisionsproductions.com/product/players/ for a list of tested players) and plays in most Computer DVD and CD drives via software such as WINDVD, MacVCD and MacVCDX.

Background: Denmark Vesey was a slave of Joseph Vesey, a slave trader in South Carolina. Vesey won the lottery and used a portion of the proceeds to purchase his freedom. Unlike many blacks who had their nominal freedom, Vesey was not satisfied with the conditions under which blacks found themselves and decided to lead an insurrection. Vesey, along with Monday Gell, Gullah Jack, Peter Poyas and Ned Bennett, were betrayed by a domestic. Vesey along with many other co-conspirators were tried in a special court and were sentenced to death by hanging.

This documentary is narrated by Yvette Raven and features commentary from Daniel Meaders, Aubyn Lewis and Sondjata Olatunji.

Daniel Meaders is a Professor of History at William Paterson University of New Jersey and has published the following:
"South Carolina Fugitives as Viewed Through Local Colonial Newspapers with Emphasis on Runaway Notices, 1732-1801,"Journal of Negro History (1976).
"Isaac Hopper: Tales of Oppression" (forthcoming by Garland Press)
"18th Century White Slaves: Fugitive Notices," Pennsylvania Gazette 1729-1760 (under contract, Greenwood Press).
"Dead or Alive: Fugitive Slaves and White Indentured Servants before 1830" (Garland, 1993)

Aubyn Lewis is a Counselor at William Paterson University of New Jersey and a community activist interested in how youth develop, cope and become life-effective within a sociocultural context. He has degrees from C.C.N.Y. (B.S.), University of Bridgeport (M.S.), and has completed his doctoral studies coursework at Teachers College, Columbia University. Workshops in stress reduction, time/resource management, communication effectiveness, and multi cultural relations are topics he presents on a regular basis.

Sondjata Olatunji is a Documentarian, Spoken Word Artist and Pianist.

Telemaque:The Vesey Plot is available for purchase online from the store @: www.innervisionsproductions.com/product/

InnerVisions Productions is a Black owned and operated Multimedia company specializing in Digital Video production and products. Formed in 1997 and incorporated in 2002, InnerVisions Production was the first company to commit to the use of Multimedia to tell the history of Marcus Garvey and the UNIA entitled The Garvey Tribute. Today InnerVisions Productions LLC continues to be one of a few black owned Internet and video production companies in the United States and the world.

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Sondjata Olatunji
201-488-8980
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