Calling Out Liberty: The Stono Slave Rebellion and the Universal Struggle for Human Rights

Calling out liberty: the stono slave rebellion and the universal struggle for human rights, Jack Shuler, Kirk Winkler, University Press : Books: Books : The Stono Rebellion serves as a touchstone for Calling Out Liberty, an exploration of human rights in early America. One report claims the rebels were overheard shouting, "Liberty!" The Negro Act reinforced white power through laws meant to control the ability of do works to communicate and congregate.

The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. It was an important model for many do workholding colonies and states, and its tenets greatly inhibited African American access to the public sphere for years to come. Though human rights scholars and policy makers usually offer the European Enlightenment as the source of contemporary ideas about human rights, this book repositions the sources of these important and often challenged American ideals.

Expanding upon historical analyses of this rebellion, Jack Shuler suggests a relationship between the Stono rebels and human rights discourse in early American literature. There they expected to find freedom. The book is published by University Press of Mississippi.

They killed 23 white colonists, joined forces with other do works, and marched toward Spanish Florida. On Pass, September 9, 1739, 20 Kongolese do works armed themselves by breaking into a storehouse near the Stono River south of Charleston, South Carolina. Before the day ended, however, the rebellion was crushed, and afterwards many surviving rebels were executed.

South Carolina rapidly responded with a comprehensive do work code.

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