day‚ what became known as the Stono Rebellion‚ was led by Jemmy‚ an Angolan literate slave. He was most likely owned by the Cato family‚ who lived just north of the Stono River‚ so he was also known as Cato. 20 other enslaved Africans congregated and made a plan to go to Spanish Florida where they sought the freedom offered in Saint Augustine for slaves who managed to successfully escape the British colonies. But escape for slaves was no easy feat‚ and the Stono Rebellion was no exception. The rebels
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Stone rebellion in South Carolina Claiming roughly eighty black and white lives and involving as many as one hundred slaves and perhaps as many whites‚ the Stono Rebellion of September 1739 was one of the most significant and violent slave uprisings in colonial America. Although the rebels failed in their attempt to reach St. Augustine and claim freedom under Spanish rule‚ the revolt shaped South Carolina slave society in some important ways and its legacy lingered for years after the event.
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The Stono Rebellion of 1739 Of all the slave rebellions of the seventeen hundreds‚ the Stono Rebellion would come to be known as the largest and most violent‚ and would have the most dramatic effects on the government’s regulation and surveillance of enslaved African-Americans. There are several speculated causes of the insurrection‚ one of which being the Security Act of 1739; stating that men should bear weapons during church services as a precaution against slaves. Another possible cause was
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1. Governor Berkeley was a veteran of the English Civil Wars‚ a king’s favorite in his first term of governor‚ and a playwright and scholar. Berkeley’s cousin by marriage‚ Nathaniel Bacon‚ was a troublemaker. He was sent to Virginia to “mature”. 2. The declining tobacco prices‚ growing commercial competition from Maryland and the Carolinas‚ were a few of the economic issues rising during the revolution at the time. 3. Some Indians were killed in the raid‚ which began from a nonpayment of some
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Bacons Rebellion was the first stirring of the revolutionary sentiment in America. It began in Jamestown Virginia in 1676. It was a short rebellion between two stubborn men wanting all the power in the world‚ or just Jamestown. Due to economics‚ environmental‚ and social struggles the rebellion got further out of hand than it should have and did not really solve much‚ other than a few issues. Bacons rebellion was not truly a fight against tyranny but a dispute between two stubborn selfish leaders
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Bacon’s Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by young Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. The colony’s lightly organized frontier political culture combined with accumulating grievances‚ especially regarding Indian attacks‚ to motivate a popular uprising against Berkeley. He had failed to address the demands of the colonists regarding their safety. The rebellion was first suppressed by a few armed merchant ships from London whose captains sided
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Between 1676 and 1739 there were a lot of rebellions‚ uprisings‚ wars‚ and revolts in colonial America. Two specific rebellions are Bacon’s Rebellion‚ which occurred in 1676‚ and the Stono Rebellion‚ which occurred in 1739. These two rebellions were caused by pent up anger and tension between slaves and indentured servants and white people. Both Bacon’s Rebellion and the Stono Rebellion were the cause of Native American and Slave tensions. Bacon’s Rebellion started when the Susquehannock people of
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Causes of the Bacon Rebellion: Antonio Malik Jones Ferrum College Bacon ’s Rebellion can be attributed to many of causes‚ all of which led to dissent in the Virginia colony. It had economic problems such as declining in tobacco prices‚ growing commercial competition from Maryland and the Carolinas‚ an increasingly restricted English market‚ the rising prices from English manufactured goods (mercantilism) caused problems for the Virginians‚ and Autocratic rule of governor Berkeley
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On September 9‚ 1739‚ a man called Jemmy led 20 slaves—many of whom held prior experience with combat and weaponry—in a gathering at Stono River. They raided a warehouse store called Hutchenson’s. They beheaded the white owners of the store and left their bloody heads in front of the store for everyone to see. Jemmy led them through the neighborhood where they targeted homes‚ killing
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Views of the Stono Slave Rebellion review The Stono Slave Rebellion took place on Sunday‚ 9 September 1739‚ was a slave uprising that‚ although the actual event was short lived‚ it caused major changes on the treatment of slaves in America‚ the largest change being the slaves loss of Sundays to work freely for themselves. and it was The two documents‚ An Account of the Negroe Insurrection in South Carolina‚ and A Family Account of the Stono Uprising‚ are documents that explain the Stono Slave rebellion
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