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Stono - Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt (Paperback)
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Stono - Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt (Paperback)
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A sourcebook for understanding an uprising that continues to incite
historical debate. 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 followed. Among
the most important slave revolts in colonial America, the Stono
Rebellion also ranks as South Carolina's largest slave insurrection
and one of the bloodiest uprisings in American history. Significant
for the fear it cast among lowcountry slaveholders and for the
repressive slave laws enacted in its wake, Stono continues to
attract scholarly attention as a historical event worthy of study
and reinterpretation. Edited by Mark M. Smith, ""Stono: Documenting
and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt"" introduces readers to
the documents needed to understand both the revolt and the ongoing
discussion among scholars about the legacy of the insurrection.
Smith has assembled a compendium of materials necessary for an
informed examination of the revolt. Primary documents - including
some works previously unpublished and largely unknown even to
specialists - offer accounts of the violence, discussions of
Stono's impact on white sensibilities, and public records relating
incidents of the uprising. To these primary sources Smith adds
three divergent interpretations that expand on Peter H. Wood's
pioneering study Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina
from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion. Excerpts from works by John
K. Thornton, Edward A. Pearson, and Smith himself reveal how
historians have used some of the same documents to construct
radically different interpretations of the revolt's causes,
meaning, and effects.
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