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BNL.730.023
15-22 Oct 1730: 21,22 (199)
Extract of two letters from South Carolina August 20th
1730. I shall give an account of a bloody tragedy which was
to have been executed here last Saturday night (the 15th
inst.) by the Negroes, who had conspired to rise and destroy
us, and had almost bro't it to pass: but it pleased God to
appear for us, and to confound their councils. For some of
them oppos'd that the Negroes of every plantation should
destroy their own masters; but others were for rising in a
body, and giving the blow at once on surprize; and thus they
differ'd. They soon made a great body at the back of the
town, and had a great dance, and expected the country
Negroes to come & join them; and had not an over-ruling
providence discovered their intrigues, we had been all in
blood. For take the whole province, we have about 28
thousand Negroes, to 3 thousand whites. The Chief of them,
with some others, is apprehended and in irons, in order to a
tryal; and we are in hopes to find out the whole affair.
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