THEY SAY 2 : Bacon's rebellion

"The occasion of the Rebellion is not easy to be discovered" quoted by Robert Beverly given in The History anf Present State of Virginia when referring to Bacon's rebellion in 1676, a quote that says it all. The truth is , that this topic of Bacons Rebellion , the "truth" is usually the no more than the "bias truth" or in other words the truth the author agrees with. In discussions of Bacon's rebellion, one controversial issue has been whether this event was just or unjust, who was really at fault or justified in the fights between the Natives and common people of the Virginian settlement. On the one hand, this issue as been displayed as fair, such as in "A Young Peoples History of the United States" by Howard Zinn and Rebecca Stefoff. "This was Bacon's rebellion. It was not a war of American colonist against the British. Instead, Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising of angry, poor colonist against two groups... One was the Indians. The other was the colonists' own rich and privileged leaders."(pg 35) In this text they make Bacon and his followers the victim, the text supports Bacon's cause and actions. This is bias is even more so expressed in Bacons Declaration of 1676 where he,Bacon, expresses his reason/excuse for his disagreement of authority, thus acting against them, towards the Indians,"and for having in it unjust gain betrayed and sold his Majesty's country and the lives of his loyal subjects to the barbarous heathen."(ending of third section) Once again, Bacon is looked at as a positive , Indian's a negative "heathens". On the other hand there are the writings,including documents,in which Bacon's actions are frowned upon and the biased view supports the Indians.After Bacons rejection for help with this issue of "heathen" natives,"he was bent on revenge, attacked the peaceful Indian village" here, in writings such as in the academic essay "Whether They Be Friends or Foes" by Michael J. Puglisi of Marian College, unlike Zinn's text and Bacon's declaration this contends for the Indians , putting them in the victim role. Calling them "peaceful" , and as most have been raised, the peaceful ones do not deserve to be slaughtered. This has been an on going dispute sense Berkley and Bacons disagreed in in 1676, and this ongoing argument and difference in views did not change even after " that hostility flared into a full-scale rebellion that convulsed Virgina until it was finally suppressed by the government authorities in 1677, after bacons death."(Reading the American Past pg 54). The ending of the rebellion and death of bacon, only left an abrupt ending to un-ended battle and unanswered question, was Nathanial Bacon's intentions justified and which viewpoint is accurate or correct.