Essay On Stono Rebellion

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Stono rebellion has been considered as the first organized slave rebellion. It was a movement of slaves towards freedom from the white. In 17th century, South Carolina was a Slave society which meant that the society depended on the slaves. The population of South Carolina had majority of slave population. The slaves were not even treated as human. They were pushed to absolute limits and this can be pointed as the main reason for the rebellion. The planters of South Carolina demanded a large number of laborers for farming purposes. At that time, the best way to get that manpower was by using slave. Slaves were the cheapest and most reliable source of manpower as they could be pushed to their limits. So to fulfill the requirement of manpower, every year large number of slaves were imported from Africa. As slaves of Kongo were reliable, most of the slaves were brought from Kingdom of Kongo. High import rate of slaves overcame the population of the whites and this caused a fear between those people thinking that slaves had power in number and would use that power against them. So, to suppress that the white people started enforcing stricter law. And this stricter rule ultimately caused stono rebellion. Stricter …show more content…

But how can anyone force someone to do something by being nice? If the slaves were given order to something by being nice and on top of that not giving salary, they wouldn’t have work. Slavery wouldn’t work if the white people would have been polite while making black people do the work. Looking at that time, the best and appropriate way to avoid the problem of rebellion would be both harsher punishment and being nice. If these two procedure would have been carried out in a balanced way considering the condition, there wouldn’t be a Stono

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