I thought it was funny last quarter when I was in the class on colonial America oooooh not as "pre-Revolutionary America" but as "British Colonial history on the north American continent from the late 16th to late 18th century" ooooh secksay. But yeah so I got to do a paper on Bacon's Rebellion
...oh God.
I was looking for just a general link to somewhere that would just explain what Bacon's rebellion was, and then on to how all I've seen for the past three months or so from the readings related to it has been like...wow everyone really has been staring anarchy in the face this whole time but.
This was the second link right under the wikipedia entry (I won't read that 'cause I'm sure it will just piss me off.) And the money goes to:
Bacon's Rebellion demonstrated that poor whites and poor blacks could be united in a cause. This was a great fear of the ruling class -- what would prevent the poor from uniting to fight them? This fear hastened the transition to racial slavery.
Dudes seriously. It did not demonstrate that in the sense that it set out to do that. That's dragging the rebellion into...into I guess in this case the ideology of class warfare as understood by people today. Within the context of Nathaniel Bacon himself, he didn't give a damn about black people and he sure as hell didn't consider him or his followers to be poor people as opposed to the governor. Both he and Berekeley were keen on showing that they had the good awesome people on their side and the other side was supported only by the unwashed rabble (or the eeeevil conniving men).
Anyway.
