![]() ![]() ![]() Wood brings to life the experiences of the black majority in colonial South Carolina. Using a wide variety of source materials, Mr. In this first book to focus so directly upon the earliest Negro inhabitants of the deep South, Peter Wood brilliantly lays to rest the notion that the Afro-American past is unrecoverable and makes it clear that blacks played a significant and often determinative part in early American history. most Americans would find it hard to conceive that the population of one of the thirteen original colonies was well over half black at the time the nation’s independence was declared. Dust jacket shows some wear around edges.Īfrican slaves, if taken together, were the largest single group of non-English-speaking migrants to enter the North American colonies in the pre-Revolutionary era. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stone Rebellion ![]()
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