JAMESTOWN — Jamestown Rediscovery will host programming throughout September reflecting on the anniversary of Bacon’s Rebellion.

Throughout September, Jamestown Rediscovery said historians will reflect on the rebellion, which peaked on the night of Sept. 19, 1676, when Nathaniel Bacon and his rebels marched on the capital and burned it to the ground.

They were attempting to overthrow the government of Sir William Berkeley, a wealthy planter who was seen as too accommodating to Indigenous tribal nations as European colonists pushed further west, according to the organization. After Bacon’s death, the rebellion fizzled, but its impact would be felt in the courts and the further entrenchment of slave labor in Virginia, and 150 years after the rebellion, American patriots looked to the ev

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