TY - BOOK AU - Wood,Peter H. TI - Black majority: Negroes in colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion T2 - The Norton library SN - 0393007774 AV - E445.S7 W66 1975 U1 - 301.44/93/09757 PY - 0000/// CY - New York PB - Norton KW - Slavery KW - South Carolina KW - fast KW - History KW - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 N1 - 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 ER -