m the mulatto community. Vesey saw the mulatto community as the "greatest danger of betrayal of his planned slave revolt." This distrust stemmed from the elite attitude of the mulattos and their desire to be white; many of the mulatto community that Vesey knew as a free black owned slaves. "The mulatto elite... distanced themselves from the place of Christian worship whre free blacks and many of the slave majority congregated." Another important factor that allowed Vesey to use religion was that the "southern slaveholders had come under increasing criticism early in the nineteenth century by northern US press and the British-based Society for the Propagation of the Gospel for allowing their slaves to exist in what early abolitionists termed spiritual ignorance." As a result, "South Carolinians... gave pe
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