Bacon's Rebellion

Although he did discover America, there are quite a few significant reasons he should not be considered a hero. For instance, his discovery was accidental. He was looking for an alternate route to Southeast Asia. Another reason; he slaughtered, exploited and, overall, abused the natives who greeted him so kindly upon his arrival. 4.) Zinn disputes Henry Kissinger’s statement “History is the memory of states”, because he thinks that no one should take the memory of their nation as their own…

All modern humans are classified under the species Homo sapiens, yet cultural values inform us to perceive races as somewhat distinct subspecies. Race has deep seated ties to human history, as seen with the atrocities of colonialism and with racial purification plans exemplified in the Holocaust. While there are vast differences in human biological variation, from skin color to hair color to physical features, genetics has shown that there is actually more variation within a specific race than…

Throughout the 1600’s, there was a desperate need for a work force in the British North American colonies. Native Americans were dying from European diseases and were even running away to escape slavery. Also, the amount of indentured servants coming to America was decreasing and they became unreliable. This eventually led the colonists to bringing the first slaves to Virginia in 1619 because they realized another source was needed. Soon enough, slavery had a major impact on the social…

of being human. These features enable us to demean and degrade one group of individuals or even ideologies and theologies, and then celebrate, exalt or even dismiss another. This poor form of inductive reasoning is a comparison to that of Francis Bacon’s criticism of poor and illegitimate commute to truthful investigation. Although we live in a time in which laws and regulations are placed to curb foolish, contradictory and unfounded thoughts, that doesn’t imply that these laws render or inhibit…

slaves indenture servants could be free after paying the debt. In 1644 after the last rebellion with Native Americans caused 500 colonist death, Virginia forced an agreement with the lingering coastal Indians which mandate them to move reservations west and to not enter English territory. Subsequently in in 1676 Bacon’s rebellion takes place, which was a battle within the Virginia elite. The leader of the rebellion was Nathaniel Bacon who was a rich planter, his followers where as well rich…

political power. The aristocrats then used their political dominance to tax the lower class and cause even greater economic disparity. Small planters, sick and tired of being taken advantage of, joined with Nathaniel Bacon in a rebellion incited by Native American attacks. In Bacon’s “Manifesto,” Bacon justified his insurgency against the governor of Virginia, Berkeley, and demonstrated how the people of Virginia were angry as a result of the government’s abuse of power to further its own gain.…

Once America was discovered many European countries could only focus on one thing, gold. Gold was the common currency of the world, and it was believed that the New World was abundant with the precious metal. This builds the foundation of America on mercantilism, more money in the colonies meant more power for the mother countries. The hunt for gold attracted not only countries, but companies like the Virginia Company. Although some focused on gold, others viewed America as a new religious start…

Beginning with the violent revolts of Bacon’s Rebellion in the mid-1670s involving white and black servants against wealthy Virginia planters, the status of Africans began to change. They were no longer servants who had an opportunity for freedom following servitude, but instead were relegated to a life of permanent slavery in the colonies. Before the idea of race emerged in the U.S. European scientist Carolus Linneaus published a classification system in System Naturale in 1758 that was applied…

An impoverished Englishman looks out the window of the ship’s leaky hold. The year is 1639, and he has fallen victim to debt. In his already precarious social position, this indebted Englishman faced demoralization, disenfranchisement, and the as-of-yet unbreached social and economic wall of the Ancien Regime. The authorities of the time had little concern for his plight. The rapid population growth of the lowest classes in monarchic Europe made them eager to dispense of as many of the masses as…

The first growth of slavery began in when the first African American arrived in Jamestown in 1619. The Africans arrived through the Dutch trading ships, and at that time they were not considered to be slaves but as indentured servants. The indenture servants are known as temporary slaves, they can be brought and sold and had to do what their master commanded. But after seven to ten years of labor, they would be paid their freedom dues. This might allow them to buy farms of their own. Not long…