Slave Uprising In Jamestown

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The text discussed how the first African-Americans were brought by force to serve white colonists of Jamestown, Virginia in 1619. Many Virginians during this time period were in need of labor to grow a sufficient supply of food in order to survive. During 1609-1610, the colony had been faced with starvation, decreasing the original group of five hundred colonists to sixty. They were not able to force Indians to work for them, but blacks who were taken in Africam brought far from their homes and helpless, could be seen as useful. And so slave importing started, with the first twenty blacks brought from the West Indies to Jamestown and constrained in chains. Some historians claim that slaves did not accept their fate. Instead, they did in fact resist in a lot of ways, including physically, as revealed in the documents in the text show. …show more content…

The second letter details “an extremely dangerous rebellion among the Negroes in the Eastern shore of Virgin.” The third document was extremely rare in the state of South Carolina’s archive written by a slave who talks of plans for a rebellion including thousands of slaves. This never became a reality, but in the document, which was found in the year 1793 in the streets of Yorktown, Virginia, showed the deep longing the slaves had for freedom, in spite of the many odds against their revolt being

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