the assigment will be a disccssion bord.
Is Professor Tribbe full of crap? Do you agree with Professor Tribbes argument that Bacons Rebellion (1675-76) was a major turning point in Virginias shift toward becoming a slave society, with racism fully instituted in its laws? Or does the evidence from this weeks readings tell you something else?
To answer this question, you first need to carefully watch Professor Tribbe’s video lectures on slavery in Virginia to understand his argument, and then you need to think about the nature of the laws you’re reading concerning race and slavery before and after Bacon’s Rebellion. There is no doubt that laws concerning slavery were already solidifying the institution before Bacon’s Rebellion. But do you think these laws before 1675 were designed to also create a strict race-based society by institutionalizing a kind of racism that elevated all white Virginians over all Blacks in Virginia? Or do we only see such attempts to create this kind of systematic racism in Virginia after Bacon’s Rebellion? In other words, do the nature and goals of the laws change after Bacon’s Rebellion, or do you see a more natural evolution of laws whose development seem to have little relation to Bacon’s Rebellion?
Reference specific laws as you make your case, and don’t be afraid to call Professor Tribbe full of crap if that’s what you think–this is a question that historians disagree on, so he very well may be!
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