Notes 2-3
-Predestination - VII Bacon’s Rebellion (Virginia) 1676
- Tobacco economy, overproduction
- The elite laid claim to land along the river, only had valuable commercially, no roads.
- even servants who survived servitude couldn’t get access to good land, had to rent from masters, if they can not repay loans or pay rent are sold back into servitude
- Nathaniel Bacon
– member of the Gentry, but sides with the former servants
- Angry over their treatment to unable to gain a stake in society, attack Indians, but attacks a group that had treaty with Berkley
– Nathaniel Bacons rebellion is success (rare)
- Tobacco economy, overproduction
- The elite laid claim to land along the river, only had valuable commercially, no roads.
- even servants who survived servitude couldn’t get access to good land, had to rent from masters, if they can not repay loans or pay rent are sold back into servitude
- Nathaniel Bacon
– member of the Gentry, but sides with the former servants
- Angry over their treatment to unable to gain a stake in society, attack Indians, but attacks a group that had treaty with Berkley
– Nathaniel Bacons rebellion is success (rare)