Peter Wood’s Black Majority is a social history examining the cause and effects, both explicit and implicit, of the black majority that emerged in colonial South Carolina. His study spans the time period from the settlement of Carolina through the Stono Rebellion, which took place in 1739. He also takes into consideration and examines certain events that took place in the years immediately preceding the settlement of 1670, as well as those that immediately followed, as …showed first 75 words of 1984 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1984 total…the population had on the colony. The book provides numerous examples of these impacts and effects, but in the end, simply stops abruptly with the effects of the Stono Rebellion. For me, it could have only made the book stronger to bring all of these points together in a concise conclusion which would explicitly trace the impact the black majority had on colonial South Carolina, from its settlement up to and including the Stono Rebellion.