HIST 2061 Chapter : Evolution Of Slavery
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Bacon"s rebellion (1676)- freedom, participation and arms, daniel bacon is a wealthy aristocrat. Evolution of slavery because he recruits former indentures, indentures, and african slaves that help him in his uprising. He recruits the low class so they can benefit from the possibilities. The rebellion fails because bacon dies before from dysentery. Once the rebellion collapses, makes colonial gov"t very scared of indentures, which causes indentures think more about what they can obtain (mostly white indentures) Larger numbers of whites in british colonies in the field, they are present where any work is needed. Brutal caribbean slavery causes most slaves to have a high mortality rate. Georgia: low country slaves suffer from high mortality rates, both charleston and south carolina adapt to caribbean style culture, because they are so many slaves, whites are constantly surrounded. A lot of interracial children are born which develops a separate class of black people biracial people legally have no more rights than slaves in.
