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Author Hoffer, Peter Charles, 1944- author.

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

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

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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

 
    
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