What exactly triggered the Stono Rebellion is not clear. Many slaves knew that small groups of runaways had made their way from South Carolina to Florida, where they had been given freedom and land.

A: I think the Stono Rebellion must have shaken the faith ... development or the continuing importation of slaves into South Carolina as long as the importation of slaves was legal.

Peter Hutchins Wood is the author of Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion (1974), which has been described as one of the most influential books on ...

Caroline Gutman On Johns Island in South Carolina, tucked along Maybank Highway, not far from where the Stono River meets Pennys Creek, sits a long-obscured piece of history. The remains of a four ...

JOHNS ISLAND — In a win for bicyclists and pedestrians, Charleston County has found a way to grant them safe passage over the Stono River ... Georgia and South Carolina manager of East ...