By Christopher Ray
Nathaniel Bacon: The Story of My LifeNathaniel Bacon was an armed rebellion, born and raised in England in the year of 1676. When he grow older, he decided to advance in education and studied in Cambridge. While he was in Cambridge, he figured out that he was related to the famous philosopher, Francis Bacon. By the year 1673, he migrated towards the Americas to start a new life in the Colony of Virginia. Bacon's arrival in Virginia coincided with a number of crises that were rolling the colony.
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The Evolvement of Bacon's Rebellion :
Bacon's Rebellion occurred over a period of months in 1676 in Tidewater Virginia. It was brought on by a growing shortage of available land and the colony's complicated relations with both friendly and hostile tribes of Native Americans. Historians think about the rebellion as one that pitted the colony's wealthy planters. Virginia had experienced two deadly Indian uprisings in 1622 and 1644, as well as another in 1675. William Berkeley (1606–77), the colonial governor, hewed to a policy that honored alliances with friendly tribes, which in turn acted as buffers and allies against the hostile tribes.
Nathaniel Bacon (1647–1676), the wealthy son of English gentry, arrived in Virginia in 1674. He was a cousin by marriage to Governor Berkeley, who honored him with a seat on his Council. After Indians killed a laborer on his plantation in 1676, Bacon took on the mantle of Indian fighter, leading a band of men, who made no distinction between friendly and hostile tribes - in a series of deadly attacks. Bacon then led his men to the capital, where Berkeley and the colonial Assembly were in session, and demanded a commission to clear Indians from the remote areas of the colony. When Berkeley refused, Bacon's men extorted the commission by threatening to kill him and the members of the Assembly.
On July 30, 1676, Bacon issued his "Declaration of the People," a manifest justifying his of authority to protect the rights of Englishmen against Native Americans. Bacon and his band pillaged and ransacked tidewater plantations, gathering slaves and indentured servants to join them, and leveled the capital of Jamestown, burning it to the ground. Bacon died of dysentery in October, and order was restored in Virginia when a thousand troops arrived from England.
Nathaniel Bacon (1647–1676), the wealthy son of English gentry, arrived in Virginia in 1674. He was a cousin by marriage to Governor Berkeley, who honored him with a seat on his Council. After Indians killed a laborer on his plantation in 1676, Bacon took on the mantle of Indian fighter, leading a band of men, who made no distinction between friendly and hostile tribes - in a series of deadly attacks. Bacon then led his men to the capital, where Berkeley and the colonial Assembly were in session, and demanded a commission to clear Indians from the remote areas of the colony. When Berkeley refused, Bacon's men extorted the commission by threatening to kill him and the members of the Assembly.
On July 30, 1676, Bacon issued his "Declaration of the People," a manifest justifying his of authority to protect the rights of Englishmen against Native Americans. Bacon and his band pillaged and ransacked tidewater plantations, gathering slaves and indentured servants to join them, and leveled the capital of Jamestown, burning it to the ground. Bacon died of dysentery in October, and order was restored in Virginia when a thousand troops arrived from England.
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