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PG-P.730.073
29 Oct-5 Nov 1730:32 (103)
Extract of a letter from South-Carolina. August 20. 1730.
I shall give an account of a bloody tragedy which was to
have been executed here last Saturday night (the 15th
instant) by the Negroes, who had conspired to rise and
destroy us, and had almost brought it to pass; but it
pleased God to appear for us, and confound their councils.
For some of them proposed 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 and 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 28,000 Negroes, to 3000 whites. The chief of them,
with some others, is apprehended and in irons, in order to a
trial; and we are in hopes to find out the whole affair.
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