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Calling out liberty : the Stono slave rebellion and the universal struggle for human rights /

On Sunday, September 9, 1739, twenty Kongolese slaves armed themselves by breaking into a storehouse near the Stono River south of Charleston, South Carolina. They killed twenty-three white colonists, joined forces with other slaves, and marched toward Spanish Florida. There they expected to find fr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shuler, Jack
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Carolina's colonial architecture and the age of rights
  • Dissension in the ranks : regarding, evaluating, and revealing slavery in eighteenth-century America
  • Claiming rights : the Stono rebels strike for liberty
  • Negro acts : communication and African American declarations of independence
  • The heirs of Jemmy : slave rebels in nineteenth-century African American fiction
  • Plantation traditions : racism and the transformation of the Stono narrative
  • Doin' de right : the persistence of the Stono narrative.