The country was then in a miserable condition -- the soil exhausted by the thriftless system of slave cultivation -- and many farms, which had been the homesteads of old Virginia familes ...
Now the Native people whose ancestors lived here are finally telling their side of an event known as Bacon’s Rebellion, in ...
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The governor immediately fled, along with a few of his supporters, to Virginia's eastern shore ... Bacon and his men set Jamestown on fire. The rebellion ended after British authorities sent ...
According to researchers, the rebellion of Nat Turner in Virginia may have played a role in the white men's rejection of the planned college, which had support from William Lloyd Garrison ...
Word of the rebellion in the Caribbean reached the United States, inspiring slaves with hope and whites with fear. In 1799, a slave named Gabriel was caught stealing a pig in Richmond, Virginia.