History of the United States I / Unit 4 USH1 0469 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Stono Rebellion
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The idea
In September seventeen thirty-nine Jemmy, a literate Angolan, led a large group of captive Africans in armed insurrection in South Carolina.
In practice
A shared Kongo background, where the Portuguese had introduced Catholicism, that may have helped the rebels coordinate.
Where people slip
The militia suppressed it after a battle killing both enslaved people and militiamen. Survivors were executed or sold to the West Indies.
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