Black majority; Negroes in colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion (edition 1974)

by Peter H. Wood

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Black Majority won the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association.

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Title:	Black majority; Negroes in colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion
Authors:	Peter H. Wood
Info:	New York, Knopf; [distributed by Random House] 1974.
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Black Majority: Race, Rice, and Rebellion in South Carolina, 1670-1740 by Peter H. Wood

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The book is a scholarly, well documented description of Black culture and life in South Carolina from its founding to ~1740. During this time Blacks provided both skilled and unskilled labor, significantly contributing to the colony's success. As a scholarly book it was sometimes dry but interesting, nonetheless. (

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Read for a history class. More accurately, glanced. (

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Canonical title

Black Majority: Race, Rice, and Rebellion in South Carolina, 1670-1740

Original title

Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion

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1974 (first publication)

2024 (rev.)

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South Carolina, USA

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Stono Rebellion (1739)

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Epigraph

Take no one's word for anything, including mine—but trust your experience. Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.

I have great respect for that unsung army of black men and women... I am proud of these people not because of their color but because of their intelligence and their spiritual force and their beauty. The country should be proud of them, too, but, alas, not many people in this country even know of their existence. And the reason for this ignorance is that a knowledge of the role these people played—and play—in American life would reveal more about America to Americans than Americans wish to know.

I am not a ward of America; I am one of the first Americans to arrive on these shores.

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

Dedication

With deep gratitude, I dedicate this anniversary edition of Black Majority to the many teachers and students who have meant so much to me, and to those who continue to teach and study our human past, in classes and beyond, today and in the uncertain feature.

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Not long after the Restoration of the English monarchy in the spring of 1660, a Barbadian planter named John Colleton arrived in London, along with scores of other hopeful subjects from the provinces.

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This is the "50th-anniversary edition", a separate work from Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion (revised and updated edition; featuring new epilogue) please do not combine with any previous edition

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