Wikipedia Wednesday: Stono Rebellion

The Stono Rebellion (also known as “Cato’s Conspiracy”) begins on this day (9 September) in 1739 in the colony of South Carolina. It is the largest and most violent uprising in Britain’s mainland North American colonies prior to 1776, and what is even more noteworthy is that it was a slave revolt! (Also on this day in 1850, California is admitted as the 31st U.S. State.)