In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community, and Protest among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860. New York ... Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery. Chapel Hill: University of North ...

Olaudah Equiano, former slave Slavery became a highly profitable system for white plantation owners in the colonial South. In South Carolina, successful slave owners, such as the Middleton family ...

1700s: Almost half of the slaves coming to North America arrive in Charleston. Many stay in South Carolina to work on rice plantations. 1739: The Stono rebellion breaks out around Charleston ...

Chapel Hill, NC: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/University of North Carolina Press, 2006. [HT1163 B87]; Brown, Vincent. The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of ...