Whatever triggered the Rebellion, early on the morning of the 9th, a Sunday, about twenty slaves gathered near the Stono River in St. Paul's Parish, less than twenty miles from Charlestown.

The Stono Rebellion proved to be the most serious and deadly slave revolt in colonial North America. The death toll among whites was not exceeded in a U.S. slave revolt until the Nat Turner slave ...

The Stono Rebellion began on the property of one of the cooperatives I’ve worked with, which is close to Charleston and near to the Stono River.

The event underscores how the Stono Rebellion, which began on Sept. 9, 1739, in what today is southern Charleston County, remains an important and tragic piece of our history from which we all can ...

Step Afrika’s ‘Drumfolk’ brings the 1739 Stono Rebellion to life through the power of stepping. When the drums vanished from enslaved Africans’ hands, the beat leaped into the body — and ...

The Stono Rebellion, South Carolina’s most consequential slave revolt nearly three centuries ago, is the topic of the seventh annual Slave Dwelling Project Conference in September at the College ...

A 1712 slave rebellion in New York City killed at least nine white slave holders, while in 1739, up to 100 black people in colonial South Carolina participated in the Stono Rebellion, the largest ...

The Stono Rebellion of 1739 has largely been overlooked when discussing Black Americans’ fight for liberation throughout history. Still, it is one of the most forceful displays of resistance in ...

“The Stono Rebellion was kind of the start of our means of existence. They began that fight in 1739. This effort today is against anti-CRT, critical race theory, and it has to be fought.

The land where the Stono Rebellion of 1739 began, including the remains of a brick cellar that was likely part of Hutchinson's Store, are located on the site.