How did Bacon's Rebellion encourage Cheseapeake/Southern colonists to
eventually adopt a system of permanent enslavement?

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Request for Question Clarification by digsalot-ga on 29 Sep 2002 03:38 PDT

Would you fill us in on what you already know?  That way we won't be
making duplicate efforts and can provide a more useful answer.

i thought bacon was just running campaigns against the indians to vent
frustrations of the mercantlistic economic system that forced the
colonists to pay heavily to the mother country??

Here is a short excerpt from a page which has a lengthy discussion on
the subject:

http://www.paradoxmind.com/Colonization/Slavery_Chesapeake.html


 "There was no single element to explain the rise of African slavery.
Rather, we have to look at the entire historical pattern—economic,
social, and cultural. The largest growth in slavery did not come until
after 1676, the year of Bacon's Rebellion .  Some historians (Edmund
Morgan) argue that Bacon's Rebellion was a key event in convincing
planters to turn to a slave labor force, mainly because slaves would
not have to be accommodated socially or politically like freed white
servants.  Was this true or not?  To answer this, we need to take a
broader view of how labor and the economy developed in the Chesapeake,
and look at how slavery fit into the situation..."

It may suggest further lines of enquiry to you.  Particularly,
following up on the published work of Edmund Morgan on the subject of
slavery in Virginia:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393312887/qid=1033757109/sr=1-6/ref=sr_1_6/002-2246722-5118425?v=glance

 
I hope you find this of some use.

Regards,

Stu