IST and the old Professor tries to find the history that historians try to ignore….history the Americans are seldom taught…..
There is one thing that all governments fear above all else…..the people.
We all know about the revolt because of high taxes….and then of course there was the famous “No Taxation Without Representation”….we know how all the events that took place and landed American in conflict with her king…..the problem is my “revolt” is about 100 years prior to the now famous conflict……before the Tea Party and Shay’s Rebellion was the first test…….
It was called Bacon’s Rebellion…….
Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676 holds its place in the history books as the first rebellion (but obviously not the last) in the English colonies of the New World. Yet as historic as it was, Bacon’s Rebellion was also a petty, bigoted insurrection led by a lazy incompetent against a corrupt governor — and it nearly destroyed the colony of Virginia.
Bacon’s Rebellion and was a war between two actual cousins. One was the heavy-handed English governor, Sir William Berkeley, a veteran of the English civil wars. The other was Nathaniel Bacon, an immature, lazy schemer. His father had sent him to Virginia hoping he would grow up. When Bacon arrived, Berkeley gave him land and a seat on the council.
Bacon’s privilege aside, life in Virginia was harsh, filled with drought, starvation, and fighting with Native Americans. Meanwhile, white indentured servants, little more than slaves, did most of the work.
From the beginning, when Jamestown’s first settlers resorted to cannibalism to make it through the tough winter of 1609, Virginia was a harsh place to live. Throughout the 17th century, those conditions never really got much better — and eventually led to Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/bacons-rebellion
Further reading for those interested…….
A new one on me, chuq. Thanks for the history!
Best wishes, Pete.
Though I think it got mentioned in that long history series you feature. I remember the Jamestown incident now.
That was a great series…be glad when he gives another part…chuq
My pleasure I do love this history stuff….LOL chuq
The best way to “Find” the History that Americans have never been taught is to re-write History or make some up as we go along.
That is what the South tries…but there is all history written and making it up is reactionary…..if you want to know it can be found…chuq
or it can always be choreographed and dressed in the apparel of the reasonable.
A lie ‘dressed up’ is still a lie.
Sounds like Bacon was more deranged than lazy and incompetent but it could have been three.
Too bad fir the Indians. They did not ask for any if that. Progress of man.
This is just one of those events that historians try to forget….chuq