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The 1739 Stono Rebellion: South Carolina's Bloodiest Slave Revolt
On September 9, 1739, a group of about twenty enslaved Africans gathered near the Stono River in South Carolina, twenty miles from Charleston. Led by a man named Jemmy — possibly from the Kingdom of Kongo — they raided a store, seized guns and powder, and marched south toward Spanish Florida, recruiting dozens more along the way. Their banner was a flag; their drumbeat, a call to freedom. By sunset, over sixty people lay dead — white and Black — and the rebellion had become the largest slave uprising in British mainland North America. This episode follows the Stono Rebellion from its spark at…
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