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BaconsRebellion.pptxThe English Colonies
Pt. 3 – Trouble All Over the Place
Filling in the Map
English Civil War (1642-1651)
Roundheads vs. Cavaliers: Parliament vs. Crown
Colonization on Atlantic seaboard resumes after Restoration
England & the Slave Trade
Chattel slavery
Sugarcane: Antigua, Jamaica, Barbados
Chattel slaves brought to southern Carolina
Settler Colonialism
New England: Pequot War (1637) & King Phillip’s War (1675)
Virginia: Anglo-Powhatan Wars (1610s – 1640s)
“Occupation and elimination of native populations”
Bacon’s Rebellion
William Berkeley (governor) vs. Nathaniel Bacon (rebel)
Racism meets class conflict
White indentures and black slaves join Bacon’s militia
Bacon’s Rebellion (continued)
Gov’t reforms seen as weak and tone-deaf by Bacon
Bacon rejects reforms and burns down Jamestown
Most of the violence directed at Native Americans
Racism Formalized
The lesson: protect privilege; divide labor by skin color
The plan: pass laws that discriminate by skin color
The result: white people will identify by skin color, not economic status
Sources and Further Reading
LeFevre, Tate. “Settler Colonialism.” (In Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology. Ed. John Jackson. New York. Oxford University Press. 2015.) Accessed 17 January 2019.
Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. W.W. Norton & Co., Inc. 2003.
