Monday, September 7, 2009

Bacon's Rebellion

I feel that Bacon nor Governor Berkeley handled the situation the right way. Nathaniel Bacon, is a hostile man who turned his opinion into a war. Governor Berkeley, I felt acted as a cowered who didn't handle the situation when it started, like he should have which is why it turned into the state that it did. It is made clear that Bacon despises all Native Americans, and felt that all Native Americans were " wolves who preyed upon our harmless and innocent lambs". As Bacon's issues remained to be unheard and unattended to, his feelings of hate and frustration began to grow stronger as time went on. Seeing as Berkeley refused to supply the colonist with an army of their own, Bacon began to form his own.
Governor Berkeley not handeling the situation when he should of was fourced to deal with it later on when Bacon formed a full army ready to fight the Natives, leaving Berkely completly defensless. This is why I feel that neither Bacon or Berkeley's behavoir and actions were justified because they both acted very selfishly. Berkeley should have helped out his colony from the beggining instead of focusing all his attention on the wealthy colonist. Also, what Bacon did was at first somewhat heroic, however he didn't think of all the innocent Native Americans that he was also killing just to prove his point which was extremly selfish of him. The result of both their actions did nothing but disturb the peace of a entire colony.

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