South Carolina’s slave rebellions in the 1730s came right after massive African importation

Evidence

The thought that newcomers from Africa were the slaves most likely to rebel does not appear to have been idle speculation, for the late 1730s, a time of conspicuous unrest, was also a time of massive importation. In fact, at no earlier or later date did recently arrived Africans (whom we might arbitrarily define as all those slave immigrants who had been in the colony less than a decade) comprise such a large proportion of South Carolina’s Negro population. By 1740 the black inhabitants of the colony numbered roughly 39,000. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1981

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how resistant African consciousness (African-born rather than creole) fueled the radical tradition’s early revolts.