African Americans in the Early Republic (College Board AP® US History): Exam Questions

“The Stono rebellion was a relatively minor affair, in all costing about sixty lives, but it cast terror into whites across South Carolina. According to a report written a couple of years later: “every one that had any Relation, any Tie of Nature; everyone one that had a Life to lose were in the most sensible Manner shocked at such Danger hanging daily over their Heads.” Such insurrections served as a terrible warning of incipient black violence, yet slave labour also seemed essential for the prosperity of the South. As a result, the slave codes were made even tighter.”  

 David Reynolds, America: Empire and Liberty, 2010

The events described in the excerpt inspired which of the following developments?

“The Stono rebellion was a relatively minor affair, in all costing about sixty lives, but it cast terror into whites across South Carolina. According to a report written a couple of years later: “every one that had any Relation, any Tie of Nature; everyone one that had a Life to lose were in the most sensible Manner shocked at such Danger hanging daily over their Heads.” Such insurrections served as a terrible warning of incipient black violence, yet slave labour also seemed essential for the prosperity of the South. As a result, the slave codes were made even tighter.”  

 David Reynolds, America: Empire and Liberty, 2010

Efforts by African slaves to rebel ultimately failed because of