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In 1676, Nathaniel Bacon, a 29-year old planter, led a rebellion of a thousand Virginians (including former indentured servants, poor whites and poor blacks) because they resented Virginia Governor William Berkeley's friendly policies towards the Native Americans when he refused to retaliate for a series of Indian attacks on frontier settlements. The rebels took matters into their own hands, attacking Indians, chasing Berkeley from Jamestown, Virginia, and torching the city.

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