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African Dimensions of the Stono Rebellion When studying the Stono Rebellion of 1739, historians only had one eyewitness report of this. I think the reason they didn’t document it very well was because the Southerners were so outnumbered by the slaves, they didn’t want the other slaves to get ideas of rebellion. The historians also failed to look at the big picture. What they were in Africa. This played a big role in the …

…people were slaves now for ignorant farmers. They also had their religious leaders (Jesuits) telling them to run away. They were mistreated on their farm. And since they were fighters, that’s exactly what they did fight. Their African decent was overlooked for years, but I feel it was more important than the mistreatment on the farm. If they would’ve won, we could be speaking Spanish or be an all black country like Haiti.