Slaves_"News of the freedom enjoyed by residents of Fort Mose continued to
reach people still enslaved on Carolina plantations. It was spread by
word of mouth on the slave grapevine" (Turner, 24). They started
dreaming of the land that lay south. Soon after, slaves began risking
their lives to find liberation.
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The Stono Rebellion_"In 1739, there were three formidable
insurrections of the slaves in South Carolina-- one in St. Paul's
Parish, one in St. Johns, and one in Charleston. In one of these, which
occurred in September, they killed in one night twenty-five whites, and
burned six houses. They were pursued, attacked, and fourteen killed. In
two days, twenty more were killed, and forty were taken, some of whom
were shot, hanged, and some gibbeted alive! This "more exemplary"
punishment, as Gov. Gibbes called it, failed of its intended effect, for
the next year there was another insurrection in South Carolina. There
were then above 40,000 slaves, and about twenty persons were killed
before it was quelled."
-An account of some of the principal slave insurrections and others which have occurred or been attempted in the United States and elsewhere during the last two centuries with various remarks by Joshua Coffin (1860) |