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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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After this article published online, Ellis relayed his reaction Thursday through a blog called Bacon’s Rebellion.

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2023

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

Queen Cockacoeske experienced life-threatening events because of Bacon’s Rebellion from 1675 to 1676.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2021

British North America changed a great deal between the twin crises of Metacom’s War and Bacon’s Rebellion in the late seventeenth century and the eve of the Seven Years’ War in 1756.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Word of Bacon’s Rebellion spread far and wide, and several more uprisings of a similar type followed.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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