Many blacks of the time falsely believed that their freedom was at hand with the American Revolution. Ironically, the indentured servants who were the masterminds behind the ‘bacon’s rebellion’ an upheaval based upon the need for equality between their rich counterparts would also later seek to become slave masters themselves. It was a contradiction because while, they violently opposed inequality and tyranny of England on Americans or the rich on indentured servitude they actively ignored the cries of many blacks’ grievances. Many blacks at the time refused to watch while their white counterparts sought freedom and in order to ensure their human dignity, petitioned the General Assembly of New England in 1779 as
Many blacks of the time falsely believed that their freedom was at hand with the American Revolution. Ironically, the indentured servants who were the masterminds behind the ‘bacon’s rebellion’ an upheaval based upon the need for equality between their rich counterparts would also later seek to become slave masters themselves. It was a contradiction because while, they violently opposed inequality and tyranny of England on Americans or the rich on indentured servitude they actively ignored the cries of many blacks’ grievances. Many blacks at the time refused to watch while their white counterparts sought freedom and in order to ensure their human dignity, petitioned the General Assembly of New England in 1779 as