Calling out liberty : the Stono slave rebellion and the universal struggle for human rights / Jack Shuler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shuler, Jack.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave rebellions--South Carolina--Stono--History--18th century.

Slave rebellions.

Enslaved persons--South Carolina--Social conditions--18th century.

Enslaved persons.

African Americans--Civil rights--History--18th century.

African Americans.

Slavery--South Carolina--History--18th century.

Slavery.

Stono (S.C.)--Race relations--History--18th century.

Stono (S.C.).

South Carolina--Race relations--History--18th century.

South Carolina.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2009.

Language Note:

English

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 through laws

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-210) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-48545-8

9786612485459

1-60473-473-6

OCLC:

472607067