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Title Cry liberty : the great Stono River slave rebellion of 1739 / Peter Charles Hoffer.

Publication Info.	New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
	Š2012

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe Kansas Collection Harmon	975.702 H675c 2012	---	Lib Use Only

Description	xvii, 173 pages : illustrations, maps ; 18 cm.
	text txt rdacontent
	unmediated n rdamedia
	volume nc rdacarrier
Series	New narratives in American history
	New narratives in American history.
Note	Originally published: 2010.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Prologue : the land and the water -- At Hutchenson's store -- Inhuman bondage -- Terror in the night -- On Pon Pon Road -- Never forget -- Epilogue : meanings -- Explanatory essay : reading the sources on Stono.
Summary	Provides an account of the slave revolt along South Carolina's Stono River on September 9, 1739, the only notable rebellion to occur in British North America between the founding of Jamestown in 1607 and the start of the American Revolution.
Subject	Slave insurrections -- South Carolina -- Stono -- History -- 18th century.
	Slavery -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century.
	Stono (S.C.) -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century.
	South Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century.
	Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
	Slave insurrections. (OCoLC)fst01120389
	Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
	South Carolina. (OCoLC)fst01204600
	South Carolina -- Stono. (OCoLC)fst01307513
	Slave revolts -- Stono (S.C.) -- History.
	Stono (S.C.) -- Race relations -- History.
	South Carolina -- Race relations -- History.
	Slavery -- South Carolina -- History.
Chronological Term	1700-1799
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	9780195386608 (pbk.)
	0195386604 (pbk.)
	9780195386615
	0195386612