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1 online resource (xii, 217 pages) : map |
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polychrome |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-210) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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 freedom. One report claims the rebels were overheard shouting, "Liberty!" Before the day ended, however, the rebellion was crushed, and afterwards many surviving rebels were executed. South Carolina rapidly responded with a comprehensive slave code. The Negro Act reinforced white power throu |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Slave rebellions -- South Carolina -- Stono -- History -- 18th century.
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Slave rebellions. |
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South Carolina -- Stono. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Stono (S.C.) -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century.
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South Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century.
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South Carolina. |
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Enslaved persons -- South Carolina -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
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Race relations. |
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 18th century.
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African Americans -- Civil rights. |
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Slavery -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century.
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Slavery. |
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Enslaved persons. |
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HISTORY -- State & Local. |
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Social conditions. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery. |
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Enslaved persons -- Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shuler, Jack. Calling out liberty. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2009 9781604732733 (DLC) 2009001937 (OCoLC)299381444 |
| ISBN |
9781604734737 (electronic book) |
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1604734736 (electronic book) |
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1282484788 |
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9781282484788 |
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9781604732733 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1604732733 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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