Cry Liberty
The Great Stono River Slave Rebellion of 1739
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5705941 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John K Thornton (0000-0001-8760-2634, Boston University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 815-816 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jar446 |
| OpenAlex | W2042577881 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
While the Stono Rebellion in South Carolina is widely cited as the largest and deadliest slave rebellion in American history, the specifics of the event are rarely chronicled in detail. Oxford University Press's series New Narratives in American History, of which Peter Charles Hoffer's book is a part, proposes to restore narrative accounts to a historiography increasingly uninterested in the chronological succession of related events. Hoffer's carefully researched and presented story is a fine example of what can be done as narrative history. The Stono Rebellion certainly makes an interesting and engaging narrative, and Hoffer moves his story along while taking necessary asides to explore causes, consequences, and backgrounds. He carefully teases out the geographical, historical, and social background of the event, in long and detailed chapters, setting out as much as can be gleaned from the rather thin historical record about the plantation system, labor regimes, and the personalities of the most important players (at least for those for whom information is available). Hoffer's skill as a writer is as valuable as his diligence as a researcher in these chapters, engaging the reader while describing the scene
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| Citations per year | 0.62 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |