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Does Zinn provide evidence that Bacon’s Rebellion (1676) “had the overwhelming support of the Virginia population”? If so, what is it?
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Thousands of people marched into Jamestown to support Bacon while he was detained by Governor Berkeley.
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Why does Zinn ask the question “What happened to…servants after they became free”?
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Zinn is trying to dispel the idea that after servitude everyone experienced material prosperity.
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How is it that Africans made much better slaves than American Indians in colonial British North America?
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Africans were far from any government that might represent them; Black Africans were easily visible in colonial British North America; they had been branded as slaves for several hundred years before the British engaged in the slave trade.
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From Zinn’s Chapter 2, how do we know that slaves resisted their enslavement?
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Colonial assemblies remarked on the slaves’ resistance and rebellions. Testimony was given to the Virginia Assembly to prevent the free assembly of Africans.
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How did the Virginia ruling class begin to drive a wedge between the white indentured servants and enslaved African Americans?
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Zinn argues that poor whites were desperate for small gifts of status and that the Africans were taking it from them, doing the jobs that nobody else wanted to do. Zinn says that this drove a wedge between the two groups.
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Does Zinn provide evidence that Bacon’s Rebellion (1676) “had the overwhelming support of the Virginia population”? If so, what is it?
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Thousands of people marched into Jamestown to support Bacon while he was detained by Governor Berkeley.
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