to crush the uprising. King Charles II later referred to the more than twenty hangings that Berkeley carried out to deal with this rebellion, saying, “That old fool has put to death more people in that naked country than I did here for the murder of my father.” 2. Nathaniel Bacon (pg 68): a twenty-nine-year-old planter that led an uprising in 1676 that was known as Bacon’s Rebellion. By 1670, there were many discontented and impoverished wandering laborers in the Chesapeake region, many of whom were…
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