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The Stono Rebellion of 1739, near Stono River, South Carolina
The 1939 rebellion was ignited because white colonists had been working on a Negro Act of 1740 that would put more limits on Black enslaved people. It would be illegal for Black people to assemble on their own, grow their own food, learn to read, or…
An Act for Suppressing Outlying Slaves, 1691
Transcription Source: William Waller Hening, ed., The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of All Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 (Philadelphia: R. & W. & G. Bartow, 1823), 3:86–88.
