The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America

by Gerald Horne

Thus, in 1750, fifty thousand more Africans lived in the islands than on the mainland, but as 1776 approached, thirty thousand more Africans lived on the mainland than on the islands.

to be against slavery of Africans meant you favored exploitation of Europeans.

The “many late horrible and barbarous massacres” perpetrated against the “white inhabitants of this Province by Negro slaves who are generally prone to such cruel practices” made “it necessary that constant patrols should be established,” it was announced by Carolina elites in late 1739.73