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Stono Rebellion (South Carolina Encyclopedia)

South Carolina Encyclopedia. 'Stono Rebellion.' September 1739; as many as one hundred enslaved participants; South Carolina's largest and bloodiest slave insurrection; led to the 1740 Negro Act.

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Record
sc-encyclopedia-stono-rebellion
Type
web
Trust tier
A
Status
published

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Backs the essay’s Stono sentence. The essay deliberately uses this source’s own state-level superlative (‘largest and bloodiest’) rather than the wider mainland-colonies superlative that circulates elsewhere, and omits the banner detail this source itself hedges.

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Creator
South Carolina Encyclopedia (University of South Carolina, Institute for Southern Studies)
Accessed
2026-08-06

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