re: #222 HappyWarrior

I’m remembering my first semester of American history at community college. My professor was a guy around my Dad’s age. A southerner(contrasting with myself since I honestly don’t see myself as a Southerner, I don’t necessarily see myself as a Northerner either) but he seemed pretty liberal minded. Anyhow, one historical event he talked about as important was Bacon’s Rebellion. I’m not sure how famous it is nationally but it was something I had learned about in the 4th grade(Virginia in the fourth grade in the mid 90’s at least taught Virginia history that year). But Professor Reed’s point was that Bacon’s Rebellion was important because it began the scapegoating and later use of violence on a group in the so called frustrated majority. I was really happy when he wrote a reference for me when I transferred to GMU.

It was not mentioned in my mandatory Michigan history class. /s

That said, I went to Wikipedia, that font of all human ken [citation needed]. As it turns out, neither Gov. Berkeley nor Nathanial Bacon were decent people. Bacon appears to have rebelled because he was left out of Bekeley’s patronage, and wanted to lead attacks on Native Americans. The argument was Natives were raiding frontier settlements.

While he was busy with his army in the colonial capital, his own area was raided by said-same natives because he’d taken all it’s defenders to overthrow the government.