South Carolina, September 9, 1739: A band of slaves march down the road, carrying banners that proclaim "Liberty!". They shout out the same word. Led by an Angolan named Jemmy, the men and women ...
Next month, a group of scholars will convene in Charleston to share their understanding of colonial America's most deadly revolt of enslaved African Americans. The event underscores how the Stono ...
RAVENEL, S.C. (WCIV) — A Lowcountry organization is looking to preserve a historic location in Ravenel: The site where the Stono Rebellion began in 1739. The original landowners could not keep up the ...
Sep. 1—SOUTH CAROLINA — On September 9, 1739, in the British Colony of South Carolina, a band of 22 slaves marched south towards Florida, chanting and waving banners proclaiming "liberty." As the band ...
Most of the important ideas spawned on South Carolina soil have been discredited by history: the nullification of federal laws, as espoused by John C. Calhoun; the romanticism of plantation culture, ...
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Joseph McGill, founder at the Slave Dwelling Project, spent a night in one of these former slave ...
CORRECTION: A previous version of this article stated the land was in the process of being sold to the Charleston County Greenbelt Program. The program would instead consider an application for grant ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – The College of Charleston will host the Seventh National Slave Dwelling Project Conference in September. The Slave Dwelling Project will bring its conference to Charleston ...
On September 9, 1739, the Stono Rebellion took place in South Carolina. It stunned the white South Carolinian plantation owners. Slaves from West Africa decided to revolt against the oppressive South ...
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