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1015803
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b770173
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| Main Entry
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Shuler, Jack.
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| Title & Author
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Calling out liberty : : the Stono slave rebellion and the universal struggle for human rights /\ Jack Shuler.
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| Publication Statement
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Jackson :: University Press of Mississippi,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (xii, 217 pages) :: map
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| ISBN
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1282484788
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: 1604734736
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: 9781282484788
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: 9781604734737
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1604732733
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9781604732733
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-210) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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 throu.
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African Americans-- Civil rights-- History-- 18th century.
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Slave insurrections-- South Carolina-- Stono-- History-- 18th century.
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Slavery-- South Carolina-- History-- 18th century.
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Slaves-- South Carolina-- Social conditions-- 18th century.
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African Americans-- Civil rights.
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HISTORY-- State Local.
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Race relations.
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Slave insurrections.
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Slavery.
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Slaves-- Social conditions.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Slavery.
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South Carolina, Race relations, History, 18th century.
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Stono (S.C.), Race relations, History, 18th century.
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South Carolina, Stono.
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South Carolina.
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| Dewey Classification
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975.7/02
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| LC Classification
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F279.S84S48 2009eb
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