It all began with a meeting at Hutcheson's store where guns were stolen and two shopkeepers killed; 
It all began with a meeting at Hutcheson's store where guns were stolen and two shopkeepers killed; it proceeded to the house of one Mr. Godfrey, who was killed with his son and daughter, and then on to Wallace's Tavern, where the innkeeper's life was graciously spared. A report of the events was written by Lieutenant Governor William Bull, who escaped and alerted the militia. It was led by a man named Jemmy, who was either Angolan or Congolese, and initially gathered a band of about 20 Angolans. Probably inspired by a desire to escape to St. Augustine on the promise of freedom and land, it represents the ►largest slave uprising prior to the Revolution. FTP, name this 1739 rebellion named for a river near Charlestown, South Carolina.   
It all began with a meeting at Hutcheson's store where guns were stolen and two shopkeepers killed; it proceeded to the house of one Mr. Godfrey, who was killed with his son and daughter, and then on to Wallace's Tavern, where the innkeeper's life was graciously spared.
Stono Rebellion (Stono River Rebellion)