Bacon’s Rebellion began as a campaign of violence against the region’s Indigenous people carried out in defiance of the royal governor. The elite instigators of the insurrection garnered broad support by stoking prejudice and exploiting the desperation of struggling and marginalized groups, including many in the colony’s growing, and increasingly oppressed African population who saw in the uprising a chance for self-liberation.
Exactly one-hundred years before the Declaration of Independence, a group of rebels marched on Virginia’s capital and burned it to the ground in an attempt to depose a government they saw as elitist.
Torchbearer: A Story of Bacon’s Rebellion is a new original musical based on the events that swept Virginia from 1675 to 1677. In a colony haunted by the shadow of regicide, old grudges and new tensions build to a conflagration that threatens everyone and everything it touches. Torchbearer examines the motives and fates of a […]
Torchbearer: A Story of Bacon’s Rebellion is a new original musical based on the events that swept Virginia from 1675 to 1677. In a colony haunted by the shadow of regicide, old grudges and new tensions build to a conflagration that threatens everyone and everything it touches. Torchbearer examines the motives and fates of a […]
Torchbearer: A Story of Bacon’s Rebellion is a new original musical based on the events that swept Virginia from 1675 to 1677. In a colony haunted by the shadow of regicide, old grudges and new tensions build to a conflagration that threatens everyone and everything it touches. Torchbearer examines the motives and fates of a […]
Join us at Bacon’s Castle for our annual Seventeenth Century Day! This year we will be joined by our Virginia Indian Tribal Partners – the Pamunkey Indian Tribe, the Rappahannock Indian Tribe, and the Nottoway Indian Tribe – and we will also host the Library of Virginia’s LVA On the Go van.