What role did African Americans play in Bacon's Rebellion?

What will be an ideal response?


The ideal answer should include:
1. Bacon's following included a diverse set of unfree workers.
2. Many Africans, both slaves and indentured servants, worked on Virginia's tobacco plantations.
3. With much to gain and little to lose, such Africans joined Bacon's Rebellion.
4. When Bacon died, bound workers continued the fight.
5. The uprising was not completely put down until the arrival of military reinforcements from Britain.

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