Description In the fall of 1739, as many as one hundred enslaved African and African Americans living within twenty miles of Charleston joined forces to strike down their white owners and march en masse toward Spanish Florida and freedom.
Among the most important Slave revolts in colonial America, the Stono Rebellion also ranks as South Carolina\'s largest Slave insurrection and one of the bloodiest upris.
More than sixty whites and thirty slaves died in the violence that followed.
Description In the fall of 1739, as many as one hundred enslaved African and African Americans living within twenty miles of Charleston joined forces to strike down their white owners and march en masse toward Spanish Florida and freedom