Stono

by Smith, Mark M.

• ISBN13: 9781570036057
• ISBN10: 1570036055
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781643360942
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-30
• Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr
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Summary

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. 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.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Finding Stono	p. xi
Documenting Stono
Spanish Designs and Slave Resistance	p. 3
A Ranger Details the Insurrection	p. 7
News of the Revolt Enters Private Correspondence	p. 9
Overwork and Retaliation?	p. 11
The Stono Rebellion as National News	p. 12
Account of the Negroe Insurrection in South Carolina	p. 13
Lieutenant Governor Bull's Eyewitness Account	p. 16
Rewarding Indians, Catching Rebels	p. 18
Deserting Stono	p. 19
An "Act for the Better Ordering"	p. 20
The Official Report	p. 28
Viewing Revolt from 1770	p. 30
An Early Historical Account	p. 32
An Abolitionist's Account, 1847	p. 35
"As it come down to me": Black Memories of Stono in the 1930s	p. 55
Interpreting Stono
Anatomy of a Revolt	p. 59
African Dimensions	p. 73
Rebelling as Men	p. 87
Time, Religion, Rebellion	p. 108
A Working Bibliography on the Stono Rebellion	p. 125
Index	p. 129
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