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Down in Virginia, Governor George Berkeley was trying to avoid a totally different war with neighboring Native Americans, in part to avoid disrupting his profitable fur trade. Twenty-nine-year-old frontier planter Nathaniel Bacon had other plans. The racial laws passed in the 1660s had done little to diminish class conflict and the appetite for Native land. Around April 1676, Bacon mobilized a force of frontier White laborers to redirect their anger from White elites to Susquehannocks. Bacon’s mind game worked.
