Bacon’s Rebellion | United States history | Britannica (original) (raw)

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idea of race in America

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  In race: The problem of labour in the New World
  …percent of the rebels in Bacon’s Rebellion [1676] were Blacks, both servants and freedmen). The social position of Africans and their descendants for the first six or seven decades of colonial history seems to have been open and fluid and not initially overcast with an ideology of inequality or inferiority.
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opposition by Berkeley

• In Sir William Berkeley
  …colonial governor of Virginia during Bacon’s Rebellion, an armed uprising (1676) against his moderate Indian policy.
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role of Bacon

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  In Nathaniel Bacon
  …Virginia planter and leader of Bacon’s Rebellion (1676), the first popular revolt in England’s North American colonies.
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