This blog is inspired by Bacon’s Rebellion in colonial Virginia. In a nutshell, it was a revolt by ordinary people against their treatment by the powers that be. The “ordinary people” were slaves and servants of no particular distinction at that time except that, perhaps, they were not Native Americans but they were poor and uneducated. The “powers that be” were the ruling class.
After Bacon’s Rebellion, the ruling class feared the combined might of servants and slaves. They concluded that their...