Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion

Peter H. Wood

Norton, 1996 - History - 346 pages

Reissued in paperback, this groundbreaking study of two cultures in early America is "easily the most thorough and the most penetrating case study yet written of the Afro-American population during the slave period . . . Fascinating and instructive".--Jack P. Green.

About the author

Peter H. Wood (Duke University), coauthor of Created Equal and Powhatan's Mantle, has received the American Historical Association's Distinguished Teaching Award. His books include Strange New Land and Near Andersonville.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion; Norton Library
• Author: Peter H. Wood
• Edition: reprint, reissue, revised
• Publisher: Norton, 1996
• ISBN: 0393314820, 9780393314823
• Length: 346 pages
• Subjects: History / General; History / Social History; History / World; Social Science / Black Studies (Global); Social Science / Demography; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies; Social Science / Sociology / General