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Miguel Cortez,
Small Business Owner
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In 1676 Nathaniel Bacon led an uprising in Virginia.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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The situation reached the boiling point, and servants and former servants united under the leadership of a disgruntled planter by the name of Nathaniel Bacon, rose in revolt, marched to Jamestown, and burned it to the ground in 1676.
Planter Nathaniel Bacon helped organize an army of whites and Blacks that sacked Jamestown and forced the governor to flee.
On September 19, Nathaniel Bacon led south Virginians against the Indians in violation of Governor Berkeley's wishes.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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Advocates of Norborne Berkeley note that the other Governor Berkeley (William) was known by some as the "Tyrannical Governor of Virginia" because he ordered the hanging of Nathaniel Bacon's followers for resisting his authority.
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Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker
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The Rebellion began when Nathaniel Bacon, a power-hungry gentleman fresh from England, made common cause with his former servant neighbors in the backcountry region.
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Sasha Prevette,
Kindergarten student
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In the same years (1675 to 1676) in Virginia, land–hungry settlers led by a planter named Nathaniel Bacon picked a fight with the Susquehannock people.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Nathaniel Bacon, a disgruntled planter recently arrived from England, made common cause with the former servants over the Indian "problem" on the frontier and a frontier movement was born.
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