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Bacon's Rebellion and Racial Codification

Virginia, VA

Bacon's Rebellion and Racial Codification

Bacon's Rebellion and Racial Codification

Bacon's Rebellion, led by Nathaniel Bacon, was a violent uprising of frontiersmen against Virginia's colonial government, exacerbated by conflicts over land and racial tensions[3]. Although the rebellion was primarily about land and governance, it accelerated the colony's shift toward reliance on enslaved African labor rather than indentured European …

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