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The Stono Rebellion (also known as Cato's Conspiracy or Cato's Rebellion) was a slave revolt that began on 9 September 1739, in the colony of South Carolina.It was the largest slave rebellion in the Southern Colonial era, with 25 colonists and 35 to 50 African slaves killed.
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The site of the Stono Rebellion was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1974, in recognition of the slaves' bid for freedom. [37] The comprehensive Negro Act of 1740 was passed in South Carolina, during Governor William Bull's time in office, in response to the Stono Rebellion in 1739. [40]
In 1739 a group of enslaved people, collaborated to form an uprising later called the Stono Rebellion. The Stono Rebellion was led by an enslaved African named Jemmy, also known as Cato in some historical accounts. Jemmy and his fellow rebels were part of a group of about 20 enslaved Africans who began the uprising. South Carolina immediately ...
It is the near the Stono River Slave Rebellion Site, a U.S. National Historic Landmark and location of the start of the Stono Rebellion, the first large-scale slave revolt in the United States. There was a Rantowles Depot. [1] There is a Rantowles Bridge. [2] Rantowles Creek feeds into the Stono River. Coburg Dairy was established in the area. [3]
In 2021, the 1811 Kid Ory Historic House opened on the site of Woodland Plantation in LaPlace, which is in the National Register of Historic Places of the United States. The museum is dedicated to the German Coast uprising and to Kid Ory , an American jazz composer, trombonist, and bandleader born there in 1886.
Word of the free black settlement reached the Province of South Carolina; it is believed to have helped inspire the Stono Rebellion in September 1739. During the slave revolt, several dozen blacks headed for Spanish Florida, and were recruited into the colonial militia. [12] [13] [14]
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