Finding the Bones of Nat Turner, American Rebel Nat Turner’s 1831 rebellion struck fear throughout the slaveholding South, which sought to quash his legacy. Historians are making new discoveries ...

Despite segregation, and attempts at control and domination, Black Catholics have thrived, even leading the Stono Rebellion in South Carolina in the 18th century, said Copeland. And throughout that ...

A photograph taken on the banks of the Stono River recalls the 1739 uprising of enslaved people referred to as the Stono Rebellion.

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight to enslavement even as they perpetuated it.

The Stono Rebellion was the largest slave revolt in colonial-era America. Step Afrika! perform during a Juneteenth concert on the South Lawn of the White House in 2023. Susan Walsh, AP Photo ...

The slave Jemmy and his followers fought back in the Stono Rebellion of 1739. Black folk fought back in the New York Insurrection of 1741.

On Saturday eighty or ninety of the crew of the gunboat Isaac Smith, captured in Stono River, South Carolina, also came down, together with nineteen officers, being the remainder of those captured ...

“I like to say that the drum is the only instrument that we see today that’s a true African instrument, and that was outlawed in 1740 as a result of the Stono Rebellion of 1739” in South ...

Report re. Stono Rebellion slave-catchers A Commons House of Assembly Committee Report, in a Message to the Governor's Council November 29, 1739 1.

The response to the Stono Rebellion laid the groundwork for Antebellum slave codes, as stories of successful maroon settlements, slave revolts in the Caribbean, and the outnumbering of whites by ...

The response to the Stono Rebellion laid the groundwork for Antebellum slave codes, as stories of successful maroon settlements, slave revolts in the Caribbean, and the outnumbering of whites by ...