Slave Rebelliousness and Social Conflict in North Carolina, 1775 to 1802
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3525660 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeffrey J Crow (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 79 |
| Publication date | 1980-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1920970 |
| OpenAlex | W2325158535 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Q UILLO, a slave of James Hunt of Granville County, North Carolina, has not been remembered as a Revolutionary patriot or prominent political figure, but to local whites he must surely have seemed a troublesome symbol of the American Revolution gone awry. In April I794, Granville County authorities accused Quillo of plotting a slave insurrection. Slaves who testified against him disclosed some striking attitudes and ideas among blacks. Quillo, they said, had to give a large treat at Craggs Branch to the black people. While serving cider and brandy, he planned to hold an which slaves would choose burgesses, justices of the peace, and sheriffs in order to have equalJustice distributed so that a weak person might collect debts, as well as a Strong one. Not only had Quillo asked several slaves to stand as candidates, but the bondsmen expected these black representatives to employ force in collecting the monies due them. In defense Quillo asserted that the idea for an election had come from Tom, a mulatto slave. The election had been called off or postponed because someone had broken into a white man's cellar and stolen liquor. If the election had been held, the slaves who attended could have been charged with the theft of that liquor. According to the slave deponents, Quillo had also been touch with a Negro neighboring Person County who had heard that a band of Negroes intended to march toward Granville. One slave charged that after the election Quillo and his associates were to proceed to inlist what forces they could to join the said party from Person and with them to force their way wherever they choosed, and to murder all who stood their way, or opposed them. Quillo had supposedly vowed to clear ... out the whites if they tried to interfere.' Quillo's may have been a ruse for some deeper scheme, but
Political science · Social conflict · Cuban History and Society · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1985 - 2014 (30) |
| Highly cited | No |