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Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony, led by Nathaniel Bacon. It was the first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part; a similar uprising in Maryland occurred later that year. The uprising was a protest against the governor of Virginia, William Berkeley. [1]
Bacon's Rebellion was the result of discontent among back-country farmers; against corruption in the government. Rather than adhere to the law, they chose to push it aside. Many Virginians were debtors. Borrowing on the strength of paper money was stopped by the British Government, leading to more discontent against the merchant classes bryans.
By late July, Bacon declared himself "General by Consent of the People" at Middle Plantation (later called Williamsburg). While Bacon was engaged with forays against Native Americans, Berkeley set sail for the Eastern Shore, where he gathered a small force and fleet to return to Jamestown and occupy the undefended capital.
Bacon's army, by now 300 strong, made Green Spring its camp from which to launch a successful assault on Jamestown. The town was burned. The easy victory was short-lived, however; Bacon's army moved on to Gloucester County where its leader, already ill, died. The rebel forces soon broke up, and Berkeley once again was in supreme command of the colony.
The 56-year-old governor returned to his bured capital and his looted home at the end of January 1695. His wife described Green Spring in a letter to her cousin: "& for the house it looked like one of those the boys pull down at Shrovetide, & was almost as much to repair as if it had been new to build." "[2]
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Footnotes
- ^ "Green Spring Plantation". Historic Jamestowne. Retrieved 2008-10-15.
- ^ "Green Spring Plantation". Historic Jamestowne. Retrieved 2008-25-30.
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References
- Frantz, John B. Bacon's Rebellion: Prologue to the Revolution? (1969)
- Johnson, Paul. A History of the American People. (1997), 77-78
- Lovejoy, David S. "The Virginia Charter and Bacon's Rebellion," in The Glorious Revolution in America (1972), 32-52.
- Morgan, Edmund Sears. "Rebellion," in American Slavery, American Freedom:The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (New York: Norton, 1975), 250-70.
- Takaki, Ronald T. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Back Bay Books (2004), pp. 62-67. ISBN 0316831115.
- Washburn, W. E. The Governor and the Rebel (1957, repr. 1967).
- Webb, Stephen Saunders, 1676 - The End of American Independence. (New York: 1984).
- Wertenbaker, T. J. Torchbearer of the Revolution (1940, rpt. 1965)
- Wertenbaker, T. J. Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 (1957)
External links
- Great Trading Path original source documents pertaining to Bacon's Rebellion
- The Widow Ranter; or, The History of Bacon in Virginia, by Aphra Behn presents a romanticized version of the story.
- "Green Spring Plantation". Historic Jamestowne. Retrieved 2008-10-15.