Nathaniel Bacon was a colonist of Virginia Colony and he was known for instigating the Bacon's rebellion that ended when he himself died.
He led a rebellion against the wealthy land owners of Virginia in 1676 because he resented the Virginia's governor's friendly policies towards native Americans. Bacon was helping the African Americans as they endured attacks by natives and the Governor, William Berkeley refused to retaliate against the native attackers.
He was paranoid. He was constantly in fear of how he could control this vast new territory with so many cultures and so many different groups of people," she says. And he feared the inkbrush as much as the sword.
The profession that grew substantially with women’s participation during the Civil War was nursing. The women were not directly involved in the war, but they were definitely required to treat the wounded of the war.
