They Say: Bacon's Rebellion

According to Dictionary.com, rebellion is," Open, organized, and armed resistance to one's government or ruler." Though short lived, Bacon's Rebellion was esteemed and criticized by scientists and researchers as a very cruel and inhumane point in American History. Casting a sort of shadow of injustice over the event, Puglisi states in his article "'Whether They Be Friends Or Foes:' The Roles And Reactions Of Tributary Native Groups Caught In Colonial Conflicts" that the colonists had "a record with a lack of regard for the integrity and the well-being of the tributary tribes[...]" (83). Though Puglisi makes many very logical points, there is another popular point of view that indicates the massacre by the colonists and Bacon's hatred of them was justified by their need to defend themselves, which coincidentally makes Bacon look like a "True American Hero". This view is highly recommended by the book for young adults titled "A Young People's History of the United States Volume One" by Howard Zinn and Rebecca Stefoff. Throughout the texts, Zinn and Stefoff make multiple statements averting to the thought of a small militia of goodhearted farmers and middle-classmen trying to overthrow a corrupt government. An example of these aversions is the statement "Bacon's Rebellion brought together groups from the lower class... because they were angry with the way the colony was being run."