Road to Revolution Lecture Series: Failed Revolution

Road to Revolution Lecture Series: Failed Revolution

Part 3: “Bacon’s Rebellion, 1676”

Jamestown Public Historian Mark Summers will present on the opposing sides of Virginia’s first civil war – a group of rebels led by Nathaniel Bacon, opposed by royal governor Sir William Berkeley. He will examine the political and social roots of the rebellion, why it failed, and its impact on the American Revolution a century later.

The Road to Revolution lecture series is a 4-part program that explores how events at Jamestown influenced the founding fathers as they created a new nation, built on the foundation of democracy and rule of law established at Virginia’s first colonial capital.