Throughout the late 1600s and early 1700s, slavery defined the political, economic, and social landscape of the American South. South Carolina’s and the Chesapeake region’s cash crops (rice, indigo, tobacco, and so forth) required a large supply of workers to cultivate them. The outcomes of Bacon’s Rebellion resulted in wealthy landowners fearing uprisings among indentured servants (90). Instead of forcing the few Native Americans to work in their plantations, southern colonies began using slave labor, in which they believe could be better controlled (90). Wealthy landowners acquired slaves through the Middle Passage, a trading procedure in which Africans were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic to the Americas (93). As the amount
