{"id":2651,"date":"2020-09-08T11:29:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T15:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=2651"},"modified":"2020-09-08T11:29:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T15:29:37","slug":"persons-of-mean-and-vile-condition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/09\/08\/persons-of-mean-and-vile-condition-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Persons of Mean and Vile Condition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jamestown was founded on an ideology of classism along with racism. It’s disheartening to know that the first English settlement was a pretense to what was to come before even getting settled in. The new settlers not only thought they were better than the Indians but, they were also just racist as well.\u00a0 Bacon\u2019s Rebellion was not only just about being oppressed, \u201cThat might explain the character of their rebellion, not easily classifiable as either antiaristocrat or anti-Indian, because it was both.\u201d This is another example of History telling lies, when learning about Bacon\u2019s Rebellion, I remember learning about the struggle of the farmers. That they were just standing up to the rich and powerful of Jamestown. However, Zinn explains how not only was Bacon\u2019s Rebellion about standing up to the rich and powerful, but also just plain racism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore, violence had escalated prior to Bacon\u2019s Rebellion. It was just plain racism, \u201cViolence had escalated on the frontier before the rebellion. Some Doeg Indians took a few hogs to redress a debt, and whited, retrieving the hogs murdered two Indians.\u201d This caused a spree of skirmishes among the Indians and the settlers. While the Indians just wanted to protect themselves and their land, the settlers were racist and wanted to annex the Indians land. This led to a war, \u201cBut proposed to exempt those Indians who cooperated.\u201d Out of racism and poverty, \u201cThis seemed to anger the tierspeople, who wanted total war but also resented the high taxes assessed to pay for the war.\u201d The Jamestown Settlement was completely racist, and just out of spite. Instead of being peaceful they killed and tried to annex their land.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jamestown was founded on an ideology of classism along with racism. It’s disheartening to know that the first English settlement was a pretense to what…<\/p>\n

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