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baconsrebellion https://www.dailykos.com/news/baconsrebellion News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Mon, 27 Jan 2020 05:12:49 +0000 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 05:12:49 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Bacon's Rebellion--"a complex chain of oppression" in Colonial Virginia https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/1/31/1476212/-Anti-Capitalist-Meetup-Bacon-s-Rebellion-a-complex-chain-of-oppression-in-Colonial-Virginia <div> <div> Your several moments of Zinn: I first heard of, and immediately started to get interested in, Bacon’s Rebellion a few weeks ago. I began reading an old book with a broken binding, a gift from a grandparent we almost threw out during a recent move (the book, not Granddaddy, RIP). In the aftermath of WWII, Alfred A. Knopf published the masterwork of a racially and ethnically insensitive, “<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=gDlPYymbqm8C&pg=PA192&lpg=PA192&dq=Wilfred+E.+Binkley&source=bl&ots=rtf5dhva18&sig=aQyNfexKqblyGsN-T5cRJ6zQEdI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiG1Jek_tTKAhVU5WMKHaphBM04FBDoAQgZMAA#v=onepage&q=Wilfred%20E.%20Binkley&f=false" target="_blank">eminent</a>” political science professor, Wilfred E. Binkley, American Political Parties: Their Natural History. On pages 5-6, despite his grotesque reference to First Peoples, and his failure to describe the wicked oppression they endured, he peaked my curiosity about this rebellion: <blockquote> When the Indian unrest manifested by Philip’s War in New England had spread south and the savages fell upon the Virginia frontier families, Governor Berkeley was indifferent to demands for summoning the militia against them, for that would disturb the lucrative fur-trading monopoly. Aroused against social injustices almost as much as against the Indians, the inland democracy turned to Nathaniel Bacon, a liberal planter, whose frontier plantation had suffered from a bloody Indian massacre. When the Governor refused Bacon a commission to lead a punitive expedition against the Indians, he acted without one. Denounced by Berkeley for insubordination, he then turned with his faithful adherents against the Governor in a rebellion that produced the temporary social reforms known as “Bacon’s laws.” But when their leader suddenly died, the movement collapsed, whereupon the Governor and his tidewater partisans took savage revenge on the leaders of the earliest stirring of the American masses. In Bacon’s Rebellion we encounter the first severe conflict of the social forces in which our two-party alignments are rooted. Like a scarlet thread this controversy between old and new settlements runs unbroken through two and a half centuries of political conflict. “From Bacon’s Rebellion to the Lafollette revolt,” wrote the late Frederick J. Turner, “there are almost continuous manifestations of sectional contests of East and West, of the frontier and the older areas.” </blockquote> I became interested in the rebellion not because I saw in it a patriotic precursor of the American Revolution that was to come precisely a century later. Rather, I hoped to see in it inklings of why and how the masses might be stirred in my own lifetime. In case you haven't noticed, the masses do not currently have the power that they should have if the planet is going to be saved, and liberty and justice for all be more than a slogan. </div> </div> rss@dailykos.com (Galtisalie) Anti-CapitalistMeetUp baconsrebellion History HowardZinn Learning Propaganda Virginia _1476212 Sun, 31 Jan 2016 23:00:30 +0000 DRAMA QUEENS https://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/5/19/1187213/-DRAMA-QUEENS I think I may have stumbled upon an historical explanation as to why people would believe in a government conspiracy to seize their guns while at the same time demand that same government stop spending so much time and money protecting the rights of people the government had arrested. And this explanation begins with the sudden death of the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, Samuel Mathews, Jr, in January of 1660. He had been born in America, and there were high hopes he would be a brave new leader of a brave new world. Instead, on March 13, 1660 the Burgess, members of the Virginia colonial assembly, decided to take a step back to the future by appointing “the honorable Sir William Berkeley” as their Governor, again. rss@dailykos.com (KAMuston) 1676 baconsrebellion dramaqueens History NathanialBacon Politics RoyalGovernor Tea Party TeaParty Virginia _1187213 Sun, 19 May 2013 13:00:08 +0000 Race and Prejudice in America Today: A Series – White Supremacy and White Privilege https://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/27/1174353/-Race-and-Prejudice-in-America-Today-A-Series-White-Supremacy-and-White-Privilege White Supremacy and White Privilege are discussed in part two of the series on race and prejudice in America. rss@dailykos.com (Will Smith) baconsrebellion BritishJointStockCompanies Education History indenturedservitude Law PeggyMacintosh Race Racism Recommended scientificracism Slavery TheVirginiaCompany White Privilege WhitePrivilege WhiteSupremacy _1174353 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 07:11:29 +0000 DRAMA QUEENS https://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/5/27/1092842/-DRAMA-QUEENS I think I may have stumbled upon an historical explanation as to why people would believe in a government conspiracy to seize private guns while at the same time demand that same government stop spending so much time protecting the rights of alleged criminals. And this explanation begins with the sudden death of the Governor of the Colony of Virginia, Samuel Mathews, Jr, in January of 1660. He had been born in America, and there were high hopes he would be a brave new leader of a brave new world. Instead, on March 13, 1660 the Burgess, members of the Virginia colonial assembly, decided to take a step back to the future by appointing “the honorable Sir William Berkeley” as their Governor, again. rss@dailykos.com (KAMuston) baconsrebellion History Politics VIRGINIACOLONY _1092842 Sun, 27 May 2012 13:00:06 +0000 Losing What We Never Had: The Deferred Dreams of Black America Part One https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/8/8/1004279/-Losing-What-We-Never-Had-The-Deferred-Dreams-of-Black-America-Part-One In light of the <a href="http://pewsocialtrends.org/2011/07/26/wealth-gaps-rise-to-record-highs-between-whites-blacks-hispanics/">recent report</a> that shows that during this current recession the already-wide racial wealth gap has grown even more wide, I thought it would be appropriate to post a series I wrote in 2007 when I was a contributing editor for the <a href="http://www.blackagendareport.com/node/10261">Black Agenda Report</a>. Regrettably, the information is just as prescient now as it was then. rss@dailykos.com (Dr Rhymes) AndrewJohnson baconsrebellion Blacks EconomicInequality institutionalracism PlessyvFerguson Racism Reconstruction Slavery SystemicRacism TheCivilWar Whites _1004279 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:15:31 +0000 REPOST: Reversing the Effects of Bacon's Rebellion https://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/17/633283/-REPOST-Reversing-the-Effects-of-Bacon-s-Rebellion With all the news lately about voter turnout: the strong showing of African Americans, the growth of Registered and Active Latinos, and the fact that the working class of America are waking up to Republican Tactics, I thought I would re-post the first diary I wrote here at Daily Kos on May 30th. Bacon's Rebellion and its aftermath set a pattern for race relations and politics that has persisted throughout our national narrative. We could be at the cusp of a new era however, and that's what I wrote about. rss@dailykos.com (FrankCornish) baconsrebellion Barack Obama BarackObama NewProgressiveMajority Teaching _633283 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:19:29 +0000 Bacon's Rebellion https://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/11/24/412284/-Bacon-s-Rebellion Class Struggle: conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes)  A century before the Declaration of Independence, America was undergoing a revolution. However, this revolution was not based on a desire for independence from England. This revolution was all about fighting class and racial oppression. rss@dailykos.com (gjohnsit) bacons rebellion baconsrebellion History nathanielbacon williamberkeley _412284 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 06:20:55 +0000