Even though both New England and the Chesapeake region came from the same origins, they had different ways of life. Chesapeake masters employed indentured servants, displaced farmers who were desperate for employment and voluntarily worked several years to receive a transatlantic passage and "freedom dues." The people of Virginia also had problems with Governor Berkeley as shown in Nathaniel Bacon's rebellion in 1676 after hearing that their hopes of acquiring land was hopeless. "[the] men in authority and favor to whose hands the dispensation of the countr[y's] wealth has been committed. Let us observe the sudden rise of their estatesÂ…" (Doc. H). Bacon was complaining about the current workforce of indentured servants (considered as slaves) because the lands that they were going to receive were being taken while they worked off their time. As a result, Bacon soon decided to turn to Africa for slaves.
While colonies in the Chesapeake region employed indentured servants, New......
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