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Stono : Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt /

In the fall of 1739, as many as one hundred enslaved African and African Americans living within twenty miles of Charleston joined forces to strike down their white owners and march en masse toward Spanish Florida and freedom. More than sixty whites and thirty slaves died in the violence that follow...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Smith, Mark M. (Mark Michael), 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Spanish designs and slave resistance
  • A ranger details the insurrection
  • News of the revolt enters private correspondence
  • Overwork and retaliation?
  • The Stono Rebellion as national news
  • "Account of the Negroe insurrection in South Carolina"
  • Lieutenant Governor Bull's eyewitness account
  • Rewarding Indians, catching rebels
  • Deserting Stono
  • An "act for the better ordering"
  • The Official Report
  • Viewing Revolt from 1770
  • An Early Historical Account
  • An Abolitionist's Account, 1847
  • "As it come down to me" : Black memories of Stono in the 1930s
  • Anatomy of a revolt / Peter H. Wood
  • African dimensions / John K. Thornton
  • Rebelling as men / Edward A. Pearson
  • Time, religion, rebellion / Mark M. Smith.