Unit 2.11-

The Stono Rebellion

• Slaves reolvted to slow down the effifiency of their work

• Large plantation were common on the southern landscape, which created an environment ripe for resistance as enslaved individuals sought to reclaim their autonomy.

• Plantations relied on slaves and labor

• Black people were 2/3 of American population

• white planters worried about being out numbered

• This fear led to stricter laws and oppressive measures to control the enslaved population, including severe punishments for rebellion and the establishment of slave patrols to enforce compliance. These measures entrenched a system of racial hierarchy and violence, perpetuating the cycle of oppression and dehumanization that defined the institution of slavery in America.

• proclaimation made by spanish, spain would grant freedom to any blacks makign it to st augustine

• Led by an enslved man named Jemmy, they chose Sunday to revolt bease they were unsupervised because everyone was at work, it was believed that he came from the Kingdom of Kongo

• They carried banners and guns saying liberty and there was so many black peooe marching to st sugistine for their freedom but any were captured and killed by white colonist

• Historians are unsure what happened to Jemmy

• an Act fo rthe better ordering and governing after the rebelion wa smade

  • it was annother kegal avenue to retain African Americans from any rights

    or liberty

• Schools did certain teachers thay may keep Africans from rebellion

• laws were passed for white people to harras black people even more after the stono rebellion