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Bacon's Rebellion.

Date: 1676

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In 1676, Bacon's Rebellion unites free Africans and poor Europeans against Native people and wealthy planters to fight for the right to own land. Although the rebellion is short lived, the alliance alarms the colonial elite, who realize the labor system based on indentured servitude is unstable.