Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion (Norton Library)

by Wood, Peter H.

• ISBN13: 9780393314823
• ISBN10: 0393314820
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780307817105
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780393007770
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-04-17
• Publisher: INGRAM
• More Book Details

Summary

Black Majority won the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	xiii
Notes on the Text and a List of Footnote Abbreviations	xxi
Prologue: Small Beginnings	3	(10)
PART ONE: AFRICAN WORKERS IN THE CAROLINA LOWLANDS
The Colony of a Colony	13	(22)
Black Labor--White Rice	35	(28)
``The Soveraign Ray of Health''	63	(32)
PART TWO: THE CHANGING FRONTIER
Black Pioneers	95	(36)
``More Like a Negro Country''	131	(36)
Gullah Speech: The Roots of Black English	167	(28)
PART THREE: RISING TENSIONS
Growing Initiative Among Blacks	195	(23)
Mounting Anxiety Among Whites	218	(21)
Runaways: Slaves Who Stole Themselves	239	(32)
PART FOUR: A COLONY IN CONFLICT
Patterns of White Control	271	(14)
Patterns of Black Resistance	285	(23)
The Stono Rebellion and Its Consequences	308	(23)
Appendixes	331	(13)
Bibliographical Note	344	(2)
Index	346