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| Title | : | Calling Out Liberty: The Stono Slave Rebellion and the Universal Struggle for Human Rights |
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (542 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1617031968 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-17 |
| Language | : | English |
On Sunday, September 9, 1739, twenty Kongolese slaves armed themselves by breaking into a storehouse near the Stono River south of Charleston, South Carolina. The Stono Rebellion serves as a touchstone for Calling Out Liberty, an exploration of human rights in early America. It was an important model for many slaveholding colonies and states, and its tenets greatly inhibited African American access to the public sphere for years to come. Though human rights scholars and policy makers usually offer the European Enlightenment as the source of contemporary ideas about human rights, this book repositions the sources of these important and often challenged American ideals.. South Carolina rapidly responded with a comprehensive slave code. One report claims the rebels were overheard shouting, "Liberty!" Before the day ended, however, the rebellion was crushed, and afterwards many surviving rebels were executed. Expanding upon historical analyses of this rebellion, Jack Shuler suggests a relationship between the Stono rebels and human rights discourse in early American literature. There they expected to find freedom. They killed twenty-three white colonists, joined forces with other slaves, and marched toward Spanish
From the Inside Flap A study of one of the earliest organized slave rebellions in colonial America and its far-reaching effects
Jack Shuler is assistant professor of English at Denison University. His work has appeared in the Columbia Journal of American Studies, South Carolina Review, Fast Capitalism, and Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture.
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