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![]() ![]() The historiography has focused on a civil war between Virginians, and the Indians have been pushed the margins of the story, Rice says. However, the socioeconomic status of the militia is difficult to pin down, and there is evidence of rich planters from the frontier, like Bacon himself and William Byrd, who was one of the men who recruited him, among them. He says there has been a myth that Bacon's rebels comprised poor Western (frontier) planters against rich Eastern planters that it was an uprising from the bottom up. Who were these militia? It's hard to know, according to Rice. ![]() ![]() Bacon took control of an encampment of volunteer militiamen to fight the Susquehannock and other tribes. ![]() Some of the area's wealthy planters also wanted to go further than the governor's plan of limited warfare. Others, including Bacon, disagreed and felt that the conflict presented an opportunity to exterminate all the natives, period.Īnd it wasn't just Bacon, Rice says. Berkeley thought the best course of action would be to wage war against the Susquehannock but remain at peace with other neighboring tribes. ![]()
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