"On the 9th day of September last being Sunday... a number of Negroes assembled together at Stono, first plundered and burnt Mr. Godfrey's house and killed him, his daughter and son. They then turned back and marched towards Mr. Wallace's tavern... calling out Liberty, marched on with colours displayed, and two drums beating." — Report to South Carolina Assembly on the Stono Rebellion, 1739
The events described occurred within which broader colonial South Carolina context?
- A
A Quaker-dominated mixed-farming economy with few enslaved laborers
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A rice-plantation economy with an enslaved Black majority and tightening slave codes
- C
A frontier fur-trade economy reliant on French Huguenot trappers
- D
A predominantly Puritan town-meeting system of subsistence agriculture
Explanation
By 1739 South Carolina was a rice-and-indigo plantation society where enslaved Africans outnumbered whites in low-country parishes; Stono triggered the harsher 1740 Negro Act. Quaker Pennsylvania, French Huguenot fur trappers, and Puritan New England town meetings describe other colonies entirely.