askchapo

Entirely possible, Bacon's Rebellion is still something I need to read more about. Just looking over the pages dedicated to it in a People's History, Zinn largely seems to posit that Bacon was pushing for more conflict with Native Americans to grow his wealth while the people that followed him (which included the enslaved and servants) were seeking to level the inequality. My own understanding from what little reading I've done including Counter-Revolution of 1776 is that what made it a big historical turning point is the alliance between enslaved PoC and poor whites scared the rich so much that it massively popularized the adoption of Freedom of Religion as a major ethos in order to become a selling point to whites back in the UK. Specifically Scots around that time period, iirc. Essentially birthing the idea of whiteness by uniting Europeans of differing religious backgrounds.