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Wood, Peter H., 1943-

Black majority : Negroes in colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion / Peter H. Wood. - New York : Norton, - xxiv, 346, viii pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. - The Norton library . - Norton library. .

Based on the author's thesis, Harvard, 1972. Reprint of the 1st ed. published by Knopf, New York.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-346) and index.

African workers in the Carolina lowlands: The colony of a colony ; Black labor, white rice ; "The soveraign [sic] ray of health" -- The changing frontier: Black pioneers ; "More like a Negro country" ; Gullah speech: the roots of black English -- Rising tensions: Growing initiative among blacks ; Mounting anxiety among whites ; Runaways: slaves who stole themselves -- A colony in conflict: Patterns of white control ; Patterns of black resistance ; The Stono rebellion and its consequences.

ISBN: 0393007774 9780393007770

LCCN: 75014237

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1600-1775

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Slavery--South Carolina.
Slavery.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
South Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
South Carolina.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History.

LC Class. No.: E445.S7 / W66 1975

Dewey Class. No.: 301.44/93/09757