Stono Rebellion

The Stono Rebellion was a revolt of enslaved Africans that began on 9 September 1739 near the Stono River in South Carolina. Led by a man named Jemmy, many of the rebels came from Kongo; they killed about 20 colonists and marched towards Spanish Florida, which offered freedom, before militia defeated them. It was the largest slave revolt in the British mainland colonies, and the Negro Act of 1740 imposed harsher controls.