Black majority : Negroes in colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion / Peter H. Wood.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Norton libraryPublication details: New York : Norton, Description: xxiv, 346, viii pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0393007774
  • 9780393007770
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 301.44/93/09757
LOC classification:
  • E445.S7 W66 1975
Contents:
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.
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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.

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