Black majority : Negroes in colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion / Peter H. Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Peter H., 1943-

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--South Carolina.

Slavery.

South Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

South Carolina.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 346, viii p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1975, c1974.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

African slaves, if taken together, were the largest single group of non-English-speaking migrants to enter the North American colonies in the pre-Revolutionary era....And yet.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Notes on the Text and a List of Footnote Abbreviations

Prologue: Small Beginnings

Part One: African Workers in the Carolina Lowlands

I: The Colony of a Colony

II: Black Labor-White Rice

III: "The Soveraign Ray of Health"

Part Two: The Changing Frontier

IV: Black Pioneers

V: "More Like a Negro Country"

VI: Gullah Speech: The Roots of Black English

Part Three: Rising Tensions

VII: Growing Initiative Among Blacks

VIII: Mounting Anxiety Among Whites

IX: Runaways: Slaves Who Stole Themselves

Part Four: A Colony in Conflict

X: Patterns of White Control

XI: Patterns of Black Resistance

XII: The Stono Rebellion and Its Consequences

Appendixes

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix D

Bibliographical Note

A Note on the Author.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis, Harvard, 1972.

Includes bibliography (p. [344]-346) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780307817105

0307817105

9781299162525

1299162525

OCLC:

842961911

Publisher Number:

2027/heb00338 hdl