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New World Burning
A Story of True Events
Jamestown 1676
by Daniel Watkins
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Sixty years after John Smith and his colonists established Jamestown, English settlers dominated the early Virginia landscape. Profits from the fur trade exceeded that of tobacco and Governor William Berkeley dealt with the Indians through peaceful trade. And then came the arrival of the aristocratic rebel, Nathaniel Bacon.
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 Governor Berkeley granted vast land holdings to his friends and favorites arriving from England, while protecting the Indians for their rich fur trade. |
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 Nathaniel Bacon was the ruling class rebel that burned Jamestown to the ground with his army of indentured servants, both black men and white.
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 Philip Corstair is the indenture turned successful planter who gets caught between his Indian friends and Nathaniel Bacon's rebellion. |
 The promised wealth in tobacco lured the poor to the New World, but the plant consumed the soil that was needed for planting food.
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