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Why did south carolina's colonists live in fear of a slave revolt?
They lived in fear because rights were taken away from black people in Virginia. The slave owners would get scared of them causing a revolt......
Factors which prevented slaves from escaping from the plantations?
Slave owners instilled fear into slaves. They would use harsh punishment and death as an example to prevent slaves from trying to escape the plantations.
What did plantation owners fear that led them to separate the white servants from black slaves?
Slave rebellions.
Were owners mean to slaves?
Many were - and the worst ones tended to be downriver in Mississippi. (Hence the fear of being 'sold down the river') Others who were highly respectable, like Robert E.Lee, treated slaves harshly because they thought blacks would abuse lenient treatment. Curiously, the Confederate President was a Mississippi landowner who treated his slaves so well that they didn't want their freedom.
Many American black slaves sought their freedom during the revolution by?
Many American black slaves sought freedom by joining the troops fighting the Revolutionary War. Initially they joined by the Patriot and British causes. However, the Patriot Army stopped enlisting them in 1775 out of fear of armed revolt.
