Sunday, October 7, 2007

My Pre-Draft is Seven

Bacon's rebellion had much to do with social classes. The higher up, richer farmers were making more money than the poor or middle class, after trade was cut from bad indians. Only the richest could trade with the indians (as I come to understand... check fact) so the poor or middle class gained less profit on their already second rate land. Indentured servants were becoming free, and becoming these poor farmers, who helped fuel the rebellion. Nathanial Bacon was a trouble making schemer, and devised a plan to overthrow Berkley's reign by saying that his decisions to not bother with the Natives were impure, because he was making a substantial profit from them.

Robert Beverly, "On Bacon's Rebellion"

also

Bacon's Declaration to the People

Stretch that to be five pages.

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