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 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 scholar…
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- ISBN: 978-1-57003-604-0
- EAN: 9781570036040
- Produktnummer: 1499369
- Verlag: Univ Of South Carolina Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 134 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B17.7 cm x D1.6 cm 327 g
- Gewicht: 327
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Mark M. Smith is Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South, winner of the 1997 Avery O. Craven Prize of the Organization of American Historians. His other books include Debating Slavery: Economy and Society in the Antebellum American South, Listening to Nineteenth-Century America, and two edited collections, The Old South and Hearing History: A Reader.
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