The Stono River Revolt and Battle of Bloody Mose'

They Marched To The Beat of a Different DrumOn a foggy Sunday morning in September 1739, while the white planter class sat transfixed within their church pews, seven West African military strategists stepped out of Chaplin Woods. Their target: Hutchinson's armory. Their objective: Sovereignty.For centuries, the British narrative claimed the uprising was entirely crushed at the Edisto River. But Spanish records in St. Augustine tell a triumphant story the planters were too terrified to admit. A disciplined group of warriors liberated themselves, defeated their militia, survived a grueling three-hundred-mile wilderness trek, and stood shoulder-to-shoulder with free Black soldiers at the Battle of Bloody Mose.In this gripping, epic retelling of the Stono Rebellion, the passive myths of history are stripped away. From the riverine warfare traditions of the Niger-Benue confluence to the modern-day legacy of the Sea Islands, discover the untold truth of the Stono Rebellion-a legacy of resistance that birthed a new civilization. Revolution, by any other name, is still the same.