Calling out liberty : the Stono slave rebellion and the universal struggle for human rights / / Jack Shuler

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910810259703321
• Autore: Shuler Jack
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2009
• ISBN: 1-282-48545-8; 9786612485459; 1-60473-473-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Disciplina: 975.7/02
• Soggetti: Slave insurrections - South Carolina - Stono - History - 18th century; Slaves - South Carolina - Social conditions - 18th century; African Americans - Civil rights - History - 18th century; Slavery - South Carolina - History - 18th century; Stono (S.C.) Race relations History 18th century; South Carolina Race relations History 18th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-210) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Carolina's colonial architecture and the age of rights -- Dissension in the ranks : regarding, evaluating, and revealing slavery in eighteenth-century America -- Claiming rights : the Stono rebels strike for liberty -- Negro acts : communication and African American declarations of independence -- The heirs of Jemmy : slave rebels in nineteenth-century African American fiction -- Plantation traditions : racism and the transformation of the Stono narrative -- Doin' de right : the persistence of the Stono narrative.
• Sommario/riassunto: On Sunday, September 9, 1739, twenty Kongolese slaves armed themselves by breaking into a storehouse near the Stono River south of Charleston, South Carolina. They killed twenty-three white colonists, joined forces with other slaves, and marched toward Spanish Florida. There they expected to find freedom. One report claims the rebels were overheard shouting, ""Liberty!"" Before the day ended, however, the rebellion was crushed, and afterwards many surviving rebels were executed. South Carolina rapidly responded with a comprehensive slave ; code. The Negro Act reinforced white power through laws