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Bacon's Rebellion

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noun

  1. an unsuccessful uprising by frontiersmen in Virginia in 1676, led by Nathaniel Bacon against the colonial government in Jamestown.


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Many historians place special emphasis on Bacon's Rebellion of 1675-76 as a biracial and cross-caste coalition that violently threatened to overthrow Jamestown's plantation-slavery social order.

From Salon • Sep. 6, 2021

Stephen D. Haner is a senior fellow for state and local tax policy at the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy and contributing editor at Bacon’s Rebellion.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2020

The writer is a senior fellow for state and local tax policy at the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy and contributing editor at Bacon's Rebellion.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2020

Bacon’s Rebellion uncovered deep rifts in Virginia’s social fabric.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

The systematic enslavement of Africans, and the rearing of their children under bondage, emerged with all deliberate speed—quickened by events such as Bacon’s Rebellion.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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