On September 19, 1676, Nathaniel Bacon and his followers burned Jamestown, the capital of Virginia, marking the violent climax of a rebellion rooted in class conflict and frontier tensions. The uprising, though short-lived, reshaped the racial and social foundations of colonial America by
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