The Stono Rebellion

Slaves were bought and sold in many places, mostly for laboring farm land. In the Atlantic world during the 1500's and 1600’s there were many causes and effects to African slave trade. Many Europeans needed slaves to labor on their lands.

The Atlantic slave trade which was inevitably began by the Portuguese, but later in time taken over by the English, was the sale and exploitation of African slaves by Europeans that occurred in and throughout the Atlantic Ocean from the 15th century to the 19th century. Most slaves were transported from West Africa and Central Africa to the New World. Although slavery and slave trading already existed it became well known and practiced in all cultures. During this time while Europeans obtained most slaves through coastal trade with African states, some slaves

Claiming roughly eighty black and white lives and involving as many as one hundred slaves and perhaps as many whites, the Stono Rebellion of September 1739 was one of the most significant and violent slave uprisings in colonial America. Although the rebels failed in their attempt to reach St. Augustine and claim freedom under Spanish rule, the revolt shaped South Carolina slave society in some important ways and its legacy lingered for years after the event.

The north was okay with it for a while then the learned how the slaves we treated. Many of the slaves were whipped, beaten, underfeed, not even sleep and overworked. Northerners then wanted people to stop slavery, this caused the south to get fed up with the north because they had been doing it for so long and that was one of the ways the got their food supplies and money. The north and south then went into war to stop the slavery, many people from the south didn’t care though they just wanted to be able to make money and they never cared about blacks life because they felt superior to blacks. After slavery was officially banned the idea that whites are better than blacks was what every white felt, this had caused the idea of racism to grow hugely and the idea of segregation to come about. Many people believed that blacks were lower under them so they didn’t think they should have to go to the same stores or drink out of the same water fountains for example, so they made two of everything one for whites and another for colored. They gave blacks no rights and whites would be able to kill blacks out of cold blood and never get punished but if a black just tried to defend themselves they were ordered to be hung.

The conditions for slaves in the 1730’s were abhorrent. Slaves were not seen as people and had little to no basic human rights. The Africans brought in for slavery were treated like cattle, and were herded towards farms and plantations where they would spend the rest of their days working for their owners. Slaves could not travel, meet in groups, grow their own food, or hunt game. If they wanted to participate in any of these activities they had to do them in secret. The slaves became tired of being mistreated by the white southern slave owners, which eventually led them to start uprisings and rebellions like the Stono Rebellion.

From the 1930s to the 1950s, African Americans were being severely persecuted and ostracized. The Jim Crow Laws allowed for legal segregation and continued control over blacks in the South. Those laws severely restricted the rights of the African American in the southern half of the United States and essentially continued to restrain them even though the United States Constitution forbid it. The North did not have such laws, but blacks still suffered. When African Americans migrated to the North, they were disillusioned by the fact that they were still not equal. The African Americans were instead delivered a subtler form of the discriminatory actions within the South. African Americans struggled for equality everywhere because of white

After the American Revolution, the plantation systems of the south greatly expanded slavery in the United States. The Southern states relied on this slave labor for workers in their fields. This created tension everywhere, politically, economically, and socially. Many felt it was unjust to own a human being and the treatment of these slaves was horrible. These tensions were so strong that it became a major component to the nation-wide crisis, which resulted in the Civil War. Non-slaving holding Americans used forms of anti-slavery agitation to try to persuade slave-holding people to see their side. After the Civil War ended and the abolishment of slavery was put into law, the problem of race was not over. It provided freedom to millions of enslaved Americans and was a major social shift in the United States.

Rebellion. People always think the worst when they hear this word, but that is not always the case. Rebellion and disobedience has been a part of our history which turned into a favorable outcome.

Early Sunday Morning, on September 9th, 1739, a band of slaves marched, carrying banners that declared “Liberty!”. This revolt, named the Stono Rebellion, was the largest uprising in the colonies with over 50 people killed. Although the reason for this slave revolt is not 100 percent clear, there are multiple theories. To address the validity of these theories, it is important to get a deeper understanding of the backgrounds of the key leaders and participants of this revolt, such as Jemmy.

When reading multiple perspectives of the same event, the experience is often very eye opening. History told through cloudy judgement, so reading contrasting accounts of the Stono Rebellion was nothing short of interesting. Both perspectives are considerably different; that is true. However, there is important information to be extracted from each of the writings.

The slaves revolts consisted of them breaking tools, uprooting plants and working slowly. Thousands of them tried to run away. They were convinced that because they came from Africa and grew up with less limited resources they could give them the bare minimum to get by. This attributed to the downfall of the African American slave minds causing rebellious behavior and mass riots causing even more strain on the young southerner minds and farmers who still were completely reliant on their

The Atlantic slave trade (1441 A.D.) refers to the transportation of black Africans from their homelands to the New World (James 1). It is estimated that all together approximately 12 million Africans were transported by force from Africa to the Americas (James 1-4). Even though many people pointed out the immorality and the cruelty of slavery, very few could afford to renounce it as a social institution. Slavery was an inseparable part of 17th-18th century world economy (James 1-4). The Atlantic slave trade was very important for the 18th century world economy because it was one of the three elements of a so-called triangle of trade. There was a three-way exchange between America, Europe, and Africa. European traders would ship textiles, muskets, and manufactured merchandize to Africa and exchange it for slaves. Then they would take slaves to the Americas and exchange them for cotton and tobacco. Finally, they would sail home to Europe where they would exchange American goods for more arms, and manufactured goods (James 1-4). On each side of the triangular trade, ships made huge profits. Plus, they provided the necessary merchandise to conquer and develop both the African continent and the Americas (James in Class Presentation). Thus, the Atlantic slave trade was vitally important to the 18th century economy.

The slave trade impacted africa because that was the major source of slaves used in the Americas and throughout Europe. African people were abducted or sold by their chiefs to the Europeans to become a slave for the rest of their lives. The slaves were brought from Africa for very high prices and taken to Europe where they were sold for even higher and then taken to the Americas to work in plantations, farms, and houses. The trade impacted the Americas because that’s where many of the new slaves were being sold to in order to work on the new farms and plantations there. The slaves were the reason that colonists were able to make profits in the colonies. The use of slaves was abolished in 1807 due to the decrease of the need for slaves in foreign countries and the increase in the belief that the use of slaves was

The African slave trade was a source of labor and profit for countries in Europe and America. It began with the Portuguese in 1441 and ceased around 1808, with the abolition of slavery in America. The price of slaves would only see an increase, especially for a young or skilled one. Several world powers at the time saw the business opportunities in African slaves. Each individual country had their own goals and impact on the slave trade, however all of them grew wealthy from it.

Slavery was thought to be a solution to the British Colonial Empire due to Europeans’ history in enslaving people for centuries. Additionally, the Bible also played an influential role since slavery was approved in it. This all led to slavery first transpiring in the New World when African immigrants were brought as captives to the colonies (Jamestown being the first) to work on tobacco plantations. In fact, Virginia was the first British colony that legally authorized the practice of slavery, in 1661. However, this was linked to the development of the Atlantic Slave Trade, or the Triangular Trade, when the most valuable trades involved enslaved people and products of slave labor. The lion's share of hijacked Africans weren't at that point slaves in Africa. They were free individuals who were seized to give the work that the European forces required to maintain colonies in the Americas. Transoceanic slave exchange included the transportation between 10 million and 12 million subjugated Africans over the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. It was the second of three phases of the triangular exchange. Many also Africans brought with them their languages, art, music, and other imperative components of their culture. At this point in time, there was a large growth in enslaved Africans. Slavery