A comet, clouds of pigeons and swarms of insects seemed to Virginians to foretell disaster in 1675, and disaster came. A leading historian of the colony explains how frontier raids, falling tobacco prices and Governor William Berkeley’s grip on power drove Nathaniel Bacon to raise an army, burn Jamestown and briefly rule Virginia before his sudden death.
A clear, concise account of one of the most serious uprisings in colonial America. Download the free EPUB.