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On the surface, Bacon's Rebellion sounds a little similar to the regular war that we talked

about on the show a couple of months ago.

Both of them took place in England's North American colonies before the Revolutionary

War, although Bacon's Rebellion was about a century earlier than the other one.

They both involved some divisions between the less affluent, more inland people in the

colony and the elite ruling class out on the coast.

And as was the case with the regulators for a long time, Bacon's Rebellion was primarily

interpreted as a precursor to the Revolutionary War with patriotic colonists rising up against

the tyranny of the British colonial government.

If you studied this in school, up through about the mid to late 20th century or maybe even

later, that might be the version of it that you heard.

But on the other hand, historians writing over the last 75 years or so have been focusing

on all kinds of factors, including labor and race and colonists' relationships to the

native tribes and the nations who are already in that part of North America and the native

tribes and nations' own relationships to each other.

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