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Bacon's Rebellion
This 1905 painting by Howard Pyle depicts the burning of Jamestown in 1676 by black and white rebels led by Nathaniel Bacon.
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English — USSubject
- History
- Resistance
Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion
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Wikimedia Commons
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