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Slaves Making Tobacco

Nathaniel Bacon, who was "declared a rebel" because of his threats to attack the natives without permission. Bacon held a postion for a short time in the House of Burgesses, and shortly after formed a mob which followed his threats against the natives. After Bacon's death the members of the mob were serverly punished by Berkely.

In 1622 the Jamestown Massacre occured because of the unsettlement between the Natives and the land the the English claimed theirs. The natives murdered all but four or five hundred Englishmen.

Jamestown Scene. The jamestown settlers discovered about thirty different tribes under the leadership of Wahunsenacawh

Bacon and Berkeley

(John Smith) Trading with Native Americans

House of Burgesses

(The tobacco route of the Chesapeak region)

The Navigation Acts placed restricitions on the export of tobacco from Virginia to France and the Import of Dutch items.

Virginia, at the beginning of the Cavalier Parliment, was broken into two parties the Royalists and the People

“The desperation of the government in suppressing the rebellion seemed to have a double motive: developing an Indian policy which would divide Indians in order to control them (in New England at this very time, Massasoit's son Metacom was threatening to unite Indian tribes, and had done frightening damage to Puritan settlements in "King Philip's War"); and teaching the poor whites of Virginia that rebellion did not pay-by a show of superior force, by calling for troops from England itself, by mass hanging.”

July 1676 “indicted the Berkeley administration for unjust taxes, for putting favorites in high positions, for monopolizing the beaver trade, and for not protecting the western formers from the Indians”

Rebellion was comprised of lower class citizens-“by forced exile, by lures, promises, and lies, by kidnapping, by their urgent need to escape the living conditions of the home country, poor people wanting to go to America became commodities of profit for merchants, traders, ship captains, and eventually their masters in America”

·         “During the journey the ship is full of pitiful signs of distress-smells, fumes, horrors, vomiting, various kinds of sea sickness, fever, dysentery, headaches, heat, constipation, boils, scurvy, cancer, mouth-rot, and similar afflictions, all of them caused by the age and the high salted state of the food, especially of the meat, as well as by the very bad and filthy water.. .. Add to all that shortage of food, hunger, thirst, frost, heat, dampness, fear, misery, vexation, and lamentation as well as other troubles.... On board our ship, on a day on which we had a great storm, a woman ahout to give birth and unable to deliver under the circumstances, was pushed through one of the portholes into the sea.... “-Gottlieb Mittelberger, a musician traveling from Germany c. 1750 

Quite different description of the journey on the ship to the New Americas than what is depicted in the picture

 "If freemen with disappointed hopes should make common cause with slaves of desperate hope, the results might be worse than anything Bacon had done. The answer to the problem, obvious if unspoken and only gradually recognized, was racism, to separate dangerious free whites from dangerious balck slaves by a screen of racial contempt."  In order to form a division between slaves and servants a defintie racial like was formed. This is was believed to help end rebellions that involved both slaves and servants. Howard Zinn speaks more depth of this racial line in this book A People's History of the United States".

Indentured Servitude contract

Indentured servants working on a tobacco plantation

Slaves made up more than eight percent of the population in 1690 and twenty-one percent in 1770

With all the population growth reaching to the amount of about six thousand, about one thousand property owners which was the top five percent only one percent of the population, about fifty farmers had twenty five percent of the wealth. In 1770 one percent of the farmers owned forty-four percent of the wealth.