The Stono Rebellion

Assembled from 24 blocks · 1 evidence · 23 related

1. Story
2. A group of enslaved people led by a man named Jemmy gathers on the banks of the Stono river in South Carolina and marches, with drums and banners, in the largest slave insurrection in Britain's mainland North American colonies. It is suppressed. The detail that matters for this Journey is the drums: the colonial authorities read them as a signalling and assembly technology, which is one of the things a West African ensemble drum genuinely is, and legislated accordingly.
3. Knowledge
4. The West African drum ensemble
5. Colonial prohibition of drumming
6. The Stono Rebellion
7. Connections
8. Colonial prohibition of drumming
9. Colonial prohibition of drumming
10. The West African drum ensemble
11. The West African drum ensemble
12. The Stono Rebellion
13. Blues
14. The Stono Rebellion
15. The South Carolina Negro Act prohibits drums
16. New Orleans confines Sunday gatherings to Congo Square
17. Colonial prohibition of drumming
18. West Africa
19. Congo Square, New Orleans
20. The Stono Rebellion
21. The South Carolina Negro Act prohibits drums
22. New Orleans confines Sunday gatherings to Congo Square
23. Evidence
24. The Act restricted assembly, movement, earning and literacy among enslaved people and barred the use of drums, horns and other loud instruments, the colonial authorities holding that drums functioned as a means of assembly and signalling. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary from encyclopaedic and museum accounts; the statute text was not read, and no section or clause number is cited.