“An Account of the Negroe Insurrection in South Carolina” is an account of the Stono Rebellion in September 1739, the most violent uprising of enslaved people during the colonial period, and an argument against the use of enslaved Blacks in the colony of Georgia. The founders of Georgia, known as the trustees, agreed that slavery threatened the colony because the nearby Spanish could use enslaved people to gain military advantage. By the early eighteenth century, the Spanish were offering enslaved people refuge in nearby St. Augustine, Florida, if they pledged allegiance to the Spanish Crown and converted to Catholicism. The desire of the enslaved to pursue freedom threatened the stability of an economy dependent on slavery.