Things in the colony took a turn after Bacon’s Rebellion. This was largely due to who exactly had rebelled. Bacon had been successful in recruiting not only poor and middle-class English colonists, but also Africans and people of African descent. The House of Burgesses realized that Bacon’s followers had put aside racial differences to …
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Nathaniel Bacon’s Rebellion, Bacon’s Castle, and the Establishment of Virginia’s “Black Codes” Part 2
