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In Honor of Assata Shakur
Widener, Daniel L. http://solidarity-us.org/node/1756
Publisher: Against the Current, Michigan, USA
Date Written: 01/01/1999
Year Published: 1999
Resource Type: Article
IN 1739, A group of predominantly African-born slaves in South Carolina launched one of North America's largest and costliest revolts. Veterans of the civil wars which proliferated in the wake of the Atlantic Slave trade, fluent in Portuguese and proud Catholics (whose King, as a sovereign voluntary convert, possessed independent relations with Rome), this rebel troop felt powerfully the pull of freedom promised by the Spanish settlement at St. Augustine.
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