His manifesto opens with how perverted the morality of the colony has become. Bacon enumerates corruption, where the quality of the lives of their colonizers have greatly improved but the welfare of the colony has stagnated and downgraded, the administration's protection of their" darling Indians," where the interest of the people have not been protected but these "darling Indians" have been, as crimes of the Berkeley's administration. In return, the manifesto suggests the need to expatriate all Indians as well as to extinguish all forms of commerce and trade with them. Even though the rebellion failed, it has had some positive effects: the reduction of taxes as well as the end of rule of the "grandees" (Virginia Magazine of History and Biography in Foner, 2008).
In most societies where unjust practices are ubiquitous, a form of social retaliation is almost always imminent. The colony, which was ruled by an administration guilty of corruption and unfair practices, found an agent of social transformation via Nathaniel Bacon. But it is vital to understand that Bacon himself staged this uprising because he also has his own interests to protect and preserve. It just happened that he shares the same interests with the majority who were ruled by the Berkeley administration. The antagonistic nature of this historic marker is a clash of interests among the powerful and the subjects. The manifesto, although clearly laying out the crimes committed by the administration, however fell short on the expatriation of Indians component. It calls for the expatriation of Indians as well as the termination of commercial transactions with them but it offered no suggestions as to where Indians should be relocated. This lowered the feasibility of the manifesto's expatriation demand. This case reflects the unjust social hierarchy which has long existed: where the powerful oppresses the middle class, and in turn, the middle class oppresses those on the lowest end of the social triangle.
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