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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.
The Battle of Stono Ferry was an American Revolutionary War battle, fought on June 20, 1779, near Charleston, South Carolina. The rear guard from a British expedition retreating from an aborted attempt to take Charleston held off an assault by poorly trained militia forces under American General Benjamin Lincoln .
Big Stone Colony is a Hutterite community [3] and census-designated place (CDP) in Cascade County, Montana, United States. It is in the east-central part of the county, bordered to the east by Sand Coulee and 11 miles (18 km) south of Great Falls. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. [2]
Stono Bridge, which crosses the Stono River in Charleston, South Carolina (USA); Stono Rebellion, a slave rebellion that broke out in 1739 in the British colony of South Carolina, (modern USA); Battle of Stono Ferry, an American Revolutionary War battle, fought on June 20, 1779 near Charleston, South Carolina (USA).
The fort, to the Spanish, served as both a colony of freedmen and as Spanish Florida's front-line of defense against possible incursions from the Southern colonies. 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 ...
The Province of Carolina before and after the split into north and south. Charles Town was the first settlement, established in 1670. [3] [4] King Charles II had given the land to a group of eight nobles called the lords proprietor; they planned for a Christian colony.
Tucked into the landscape of South Salem, New York, the Wolf Conservation Center (WCC) is a haven of hope and education for one of nature’s most misunderstood predators. Founded in the mid-1990s ...
The colony forced the tribes to cede large tracts of rich land. In addition, they required the Kussoe to make a symbolic tribute payment of one deerskin per month. The Kussoe, Stono, and other Cusabo subtribes remained in the area, living in relative accord with the colonists until the Yamasee War of 1715. [5]