John K, Thornton's 'African Dimension Of The Stono Rebellion'

Peter Wood’s Black Majority is a social history examining the cause and effects, both explicit and implicit, of the black majority that emerged in colonial South Carolina. His study spans the time period from the settlement of Carolina through the Stono Rebellion, which took place in 1739. He also takes into consideration and examines certain events that took place in the years immediately preceding the settlement of 1670, as well as those that immediately followed, as a direct result of, the Stono Rebellion and their respective relationships to the black majority that existed in the colony. Wood introduces the book as possibly the first real study of this black majority and its impact on the colony in its earliest years. Wood also

The Stono Rebellion was at the time the biggest slave rebellion to ever take place in the American colonies. It came at a time when owning slaves was one of the accepted things in the colonies and the colonists depended on the labor the slaves were doing. Some colonies entire economies depended on it. In South Carolina, there were more slaves than free men in the colony. This was because of the African slave trade.

In The Fires of Jubilee Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion: Stephen Oates gives an account of the brief but deadly slave revolt in and around Southampton, Virginia. His controlling theme is that of religion and the profound influence that it had on the development of Nat Turner's charismatic persona and his rationale for engaging in a project of deliberate murder of people who had at least in the context of slavery as a given of Turner's experience, treated him quite decently. The effects of Nat Turner's rebellion were profound. The insurrection of Nat Turner was inspiration for all slaves, even if just 60 whites were killed to the 140 blacks. I am

This paper analyses the cause and the outcome of the Nat Turner’s rebellion. It also shows how violence was justified in the movement to abolish slavery because it proved that slave-owners should take the interest of slaves very seriously and treat them as a human, it also became a turning point where some slaves had the power to fight for a cause that they truly believed in and to a certain degree they were successful.

Beginning on September 9,1739, the Stono Rebellion was one of the largest slave uprisings in colonial America (Stono's Rebellion). It was the first known slave revolt in the continent of North America in 1739 (Slave Rebellions). Though it was one of the largest slave revolts in colonial America, it was still unsuccessful, but because it was so large, it had several effect on America and its government.

Harriet Beecher Stowe and Fredrick Douglass have experienced completely different events in their lives that led them both to write in protest of the slave society that they experienced. Harriet Beecher Stowe was a white woman raised in a Puritan society. She was outwardly opposed to slavery. She told her story for the main purpose of bringing attention to the issue of cruelty among slavery. Stowe’s story is fiction, although I believe that it is an accurate representation of slave life. She had no experience being a slave, but she witnessed slavery through the eyes of slaveholders. Her story is more objective concerning slave life than Fredrick Douglass’s narrative. Douglass was a slave himself and he suffered physical as well as mental anguish from his experiences. His story is told from a more subjective point of view. He shared more graphic and alarming details in his story. He shared every detail he could recall of the outrageous cruelties that he had both witnessed others go through and endured himself. Both Stowe and Douglass expressed their concern for those ignorant of the true meaning of slavery. In their writings, they both exhibit their frustration for people who call themselves Christian and continue to engage in slavery practices. Yet for the writers themselves, the opportunity to tell their stories constituted of something more personal: a means to write an identity within a country that legally

The cruel and harsh treatment of slaves in the seventeenth and eighteenth century is something that in today’s millennium a person could not even dream of. Slaves were known to be illiterate; however there are few that had the opportunity to be educated and from them society has a small glimpse into the past. There are two slaves in particular that give people a way to see life through their eyes. Frederick Douglass and Olaudah Equiano were two slaves during those times that were forced into the world of slavery. Frederick Douglass’s “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave” and Olaudah Equiano’s “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano” are literary pieces that talk about their views, experiences, and ideas in relation to slavery.

The Stono Rebellion was a rebellion by slaves which took place in South Caroline on September 9, 1739, on the banks of the Stono River. During the rebellion, 47 whites and 44 blacks were killed.

In the 1700 Africans made up most of South Carolina population. The African gave labor on sugar and rice plantation. This is important because it proved that the locked up Africans was a more tightly controlled labor force than the white written contracted servants whom they slowly replaced. In 1739 a slave known as the Stono Rebellion happened in a low county of South Carolina. Many blacks along the Stono River tried to march to Spanish Florida. The group of armed people militia was called in to put down the

Over the years many historians have just glazed over the African’s role in the settlement and shaping of the colonial era of America. The Africans are usually only identified as the primary enslaved labor force used to settle the colonies, but not much more is said about the details of how the Africans shaped the colonies. Many individuals only read or hear about major events such as the Stono Rebellion, when the first slaves arrived, or how slaves were treated. When settlers in Barbados began to move to South Carolina, due to a lack of land available to expand, they brought with them a few slaves. The first years of the new settlement they struggled to survive and produce a cash crop. Eventually, the white settlers began a cattle

From the earliest days of slavery, resistance was a constant feature of American slavery. It took many forms, from individual acts of sabotage, poor work, feigning illness, or committing crimes like our arson and poisoning to escape the system altogether by running away to the north. The bloodiest slave revolt in American history was organize by Nat Turner. Over the year’s other rebellions such as Fredrick Douglas and Lou Smith took place. They all had a common goal in some aspect, which was to reclaim their freedom or the freedom of the enslaved. Despite the common goal, they all had a method to their rebellions.

The narrative recited by Mary Prince has a clear purpose. At the time that Prince recites the events of her narrative slavery has been abolished in British Isles, but is still rampant throughout the colonies of the British Empire. Most of Prince’s experiences with slavery come from her time spent in Bermuda, a British colony in the West Indies. The majority of her narrative is spent recounting the horrors of her life in slavery. The vivid imagery Mary Prince uses to describe the brutal treatment she endured is an attempt to utilize pathetic rhetoric to convey a message to her audience. This message is that slavery is a gruesome institution of the British Empire that is still very much alive. In addition, Mary Prince was reciting and having her narrative edited by those whose clear intention in publishing her words was to abolish slavery. Thomas Pringle had risen to the rank of secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society just one year before he meets Mary Prince. Even if it were not Prince’s intention to use her story to fight slavery, those who took control over her words would not let them be used in any other way. Throughout her narrative Prince weaves a tale that evokes incredible sympathy and empathy from the reader. This is where the true greatness of Mary Prince’s narrative lies; not in the message she is trying to convey, but in the methods that she implemented to reach the masses with her message.

Just when people thought slavery was coming to an end, the discovery of new cash crops and the development of advanced innovations spurred the growth of the implacable and unforgiving system of slavery. The eradication of humanity and reduction of slaves to the status of worthless beast continued. Copious individuals, unwilling to accept their faith and to be classified as a thing, contested their situation using different types of opposition that ranged from day to day resistance to large scaled and organized rebellion. In Frederick Douglass’ Narrative of the Life, the author demonstrated the truth of being a human being who disinclined to be classified as an inferior subhuman as he used an assortment of methods to oppose the system he was born into. Slaves, helpless of being born or sold into the system, used various forms of resistance to combat their inhumane and unjust enslavement while holding on to the tiny seed of hope for an escape.

“The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion”. This quote from Frederick Douglass states that the means of rebellion- the destruction of old ways, people, and surroundings- is justified by the terrors of what one fights against. In the novel The Kingdom of This World, author Alejo Carpentier depicts the terror of the Haitian people’s rebellion, but also the brutality of their treatment. In the movie Moolaade, director Ousmane Sembene reveals the strength of the Burkinabe women who risked everything and were beaten for a refusal to comply with unnecessary traditional practices. According to the words of Frederick Douglass, both of these works show that the things we fight against, racial and gender inequality, are more

The slave masses were in fact the creators of their own history. James acknowledges that the success of the slave revolt was made possible due to the internal rivalries in the colony. "From the very momentum of their own development, colonial planters, French and British bourgeois, were generating internal stresses and intensifying external rivalries, moving blindly to explosions and conflicts which would shatter the basis of their dominance and create the possibility of emancipation" (26). Nevertheless, James asserts that "Men make their own history, and the black Jacobins of San Domingo were to make history which would alter the fate of millions of men and shift the economic currents of three continents" (25).