The Governor and the Rebel: A History of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393006452 (039300645X)
Publish date: 1972
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 248
Edition language: English
In the summer of 1677, a group of English colonists rose up against the colonial government of Virginia. Led by Nathaniel Bacon, a plantation owner who had moved to the colony just a few years previously, the rebels intimidated the government leadership into passing laws that restored suffrage right...