Jehu Jones was the African American proprietor of one of Charleston's best hotels. Gabriel Prosser plotted a slave revolt near Richmond. Denmark Vesey allegedly plotted a slave revolt in South Carolina. Celia was hanged when defending herself against a sexual assault. Harriet Beecher Stowe was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Karl Marx said that without slavery you have no cotton. Mary Chestnut was a plantation mistress who was a critic of the plantation system. Charles Deslondes was the leader of one of the largest slave revolts in American history. Lilburn Lewis who was the nephew of Thomas Jefferson who killed a rebellious slave in front of others as a warning to others.