They Say` :: Bacons Rebellion.

This is going to be straightforward.

In the discussions of Bacon's Rebellion, one controversial issue has been whether Nathanial Bacon was a hero in his community or not. On the one hand, the article, A Young People's History of the United States, written by Howard Zinn portrays him as a "protector" of the white people of the lower class. Pg 39 states that "Bacon accused the Berkeley government of wrong doing, including unfair taxes and not protecting the western farmers from the Indians." I honestly believe that that was a lame excuse used to justify his irrational behavior towards people he did not like. Michael Puglisi, on the other hand, showed a different side of Bacon through his article "Whether They Be Friends Or Foes", saying things like "The soldiers even killed an elderly native woman, "the Queens nurse"...pg.78" Using the word even to emphasize how brutal Bacon's army was. Bacon's Rebellion was a group of oppressed people who were tired of the unfairness in their community, who used violence as an escape from their misery.