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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.
Provenance
- Creator
- South Carolina Encyclopedia (University of South Carolina, Institute for Southern Studies)
- Accessed
- 2026-08-06
- External record
- https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/stono-rebellion/
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