HIST 1082 Study Guide - Stono Rebellion

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Jamestown, va everyone free and equal idea: dying of famine, many settler died, used slaves as labor to work in tobacco fields, tobacco making many people rich. Shipped about 60,000 pounds of tobacco back to england: to make more revenue, bigger land, bigger plantations, more labor (slaves) Indentured servants: given 50 acres of land for each servant a person brought into the country. 3 servants escaped plantation making their way to maryland, 2 whites 1 black: caught and whipped. 1705 difference between slave and servants: slaves = real estate, on barbados, cheaper to work slaves to death and replace them than to treat them right, plantations on barbados were admired and emulated, especially in south. Rebelled and banded together with other angolans and headed to st. Augustine: stono rebellion, seized a general store where there were arms and gun powder (killed store keepers and put heads on the front)

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