Morgan emphasizes the fact that the indentured slaves knew of their rights as English born men, and therefore could not be subjected to inequality and subservience for lengthy time frame. Morgan considered Bacon's rebellion, to be the greatest uprising before the American revolution. The revolution instilled fear in the hearts of the colonists, they could no longer trust these rabbles "they eyed one another distrustfully, on the look out for any new Bacons in their midst, who might be tempted to lead the still restive rabble on more plundering expeditions"(p.58). This insurrection was extremely instrumental in instigating the slave trade in Virginia as the English colonists came to realize "to have attempted the enslavement of the English-born lab

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