They continued to hit businesses and homes and burned the houses as they went. They also recruited more enslaved people and killed masters and their families. They marched more than 10 miles and killed 20 to 25 whites.
The white colonists had been working on a Negro Act of 1740 that would put limits on Black enslaved people. The Negro Act made it illegal for Black people to assemble on their own, grow their own food, learn to read or work for money.
Owners were permitted to kill rebellious enslaved people. These harsh laws would form the basis of race relations in South Carolina until the Reconstruction era.
