American History Opposing Viewpoints Project: Summary Assignment
Topic 2: Bacon’s Rebellion: Treason or Justified Rebellion
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Bacon’s Rebellion – The Declaration
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Renee Whittenberger
7/11/2022
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Bacon’s Rebellion: Treason or Justified Rebellion
Beverly, Robert “The History and Present State of Virginia, 1705”: Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676 http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/amerbegin/power/text5/BaconsRebellion.pdf
Nathanial Bacon led the rebellion due to being excluded from lucrative trading with the Indians that was monopolized by Governor Berkley and his wealthy friends. The Indians had a constant trade with the Dutch in Monadas and would come every year. The English came to possess the Place (1664) and understood the advantages the Virginians made by the trade of their Indians, they had so much hatred for the people of Virginia, instead of trading peacefully the robbed and murdered them. The Power of War and Peace was put into the hands of General Bacon, thus giving him the power to secure monopoly of the Indian trade to himself and his friends. A great Patriot Leader of the Virginia People who died while defending their rights October 26, 1676.
Bacons Rebellion
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Central figures in Bacon’s Rebellion were Governor Sir William Berkely and Nathanial Bacon Jr, who were related through marriage. Young Bacon was a troublemaker and his father sent him to Virginia to his cousin hoping that he would mature. Bacon’s Rebellion can be attributed to a variety of causes, all of which led to economic problems in the Virginia colony, such as declining tobacco prices, growing commercial competition from Maryland and the Carolinas. Rising prices from English manufactured goods (mercantilism) caused problems for the Virginians. There were heavy English losses in the latest series of naval wars with the Dutch and, closer to home, there were many problems caused by weather. Berkeley continually pleaded for restraint from the colonists who refused to listen, including Bacon. Bacon issued his “Declaration of the People” on July 30, 1676, which stated that Berkeley was corrupt, played favorites and protected the Indians for his own selfish purposes. Bacon burned Jamestown to the ground on September 19, 1676. However, he did save many valuable records in the statehouse. Bacon died on October 26, 1676, of “Bloody Flux” and “Lousey Disease” His body was never found and his soldiers may have burned his contaminated body.
Renee Whittenberger
7/11/2022
HIUS 221_D05_202230
Bacon’s Rebellion: Treason or Justified Rebellion
Bacon, Nathanial, “Bacon’s Rebellion: The Declaration (1676)”
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Source: “Declaration of Nathaniel Bacon in the Name of the People of Virginia, July 30, 1676,”Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, 4th ser., 1871, vol. 9: 184–87.
Economic and social power became concentrated in late seventeenth-century Virginia, leaving laborers and servants with restricted economic independence. Governor William Berkeley feared rebellion: “six parts of Seven at least are Poore, Indebted, Discontented and Armed.” In the summer of 1676 Bacon and his supporters rose up and pillaged the exclusive estates and massacred the Indians. Bacon’s Declaration challenged the economic and political privileges of the governor’s circle of favorites, while announcing the principle of the consent of the people. Bacon’s death and the arrival of a British fleet quelled this rebellion, but Virginia’s planters long remembered the spectacle of white and black acting together to challenge authority.
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