AP African American Studies / Unit 2: Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance
2.11 The Stono Rebellion and Fort Mose
Notes
The Stono Rebellion (1739) in South Carolina was one of the largest revolts in the colonies; rebels marched toward Spanish Florida. Fort Mose (1738), near St. Augustine, was the first legally free Black settlement in what became the US, offering freedom to those who escaped British colonies.
Practice
Fort Mose was:
1738.
Stono rebels were heading toward:
Promise of freedom.
After the Stono Rebellion, South Carolina:
Negro Act of 1740.
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