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SUMMARY:The Archaeology of Bacon’s Rebellion
DESCRIPTION:Buy Your In-Person Event and Livestream Tickets Here \nAs part of our Reconsidering Bacon’s Rebellion at 350 series\, Nicholas M. Luccketti who supervised the excavations will describe this remarkable discovery and discuss how he made the connection to Bacon’s Rebellion. Then\, Rebekah Planto\, PhD.\, will take a closer look at some of the artifacts recovered from the pit\, considering what such ordinary finds from an extraordinary context can reveal about everyday life and labor during this pivotal period. \nBacon’s Rebellion began as a campaign of violence against the region’s Indigenous people carried out in defiance of the royal governor. The elite instigators of the insurrection garnered broad support by stoking prejudice and exploiting the desperation of struggling and marginalized groups\, including many in the colony’s growing\, and increasingly oppressed African population who saw in the uprising a chance for self-liberation. After this initial onslaught\, the rebels turned their attention to their opponents in the colonial government\, marching on Jamestown and vandalizing the homes of prominent loyalists. \nThree hundred and fifty years later\, archaeological traces of these events are still evident at sites across Virginia. Completed on the eve of the conflict and captured by rebels who used it as a fort during the final months of fighting\, “Bacon’s Castle” in Surry County is the only structure involved in Bacon’s Rebellion that is still visible above the ground. In the 1980s\, archaeological excavations revealed evidence of the damage and subsequent clean-up efforts in a large pit hastily concealed beneath the elaborate garden completed at the end of the 17th century. \nNicholas M. Luccketti \nNicholas M. Luccketti\, M.A.\, RPA\, has been surveying and excavating Virginia sites since 1974 for institutions such as the Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission (now the Virginia Department of Historic Resources)\, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation\, and the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA). At the James River Institute for Archaeology\, Inc. (JRIA)\, Mr. Luccketti is responsible for preparing and managing budgets\, directing Phase I\, II\, and III excavations\, managing field crews\, monitoring construction\, creating predictive models\, preparing reports\, and representing clients.  As JRIA’s Principal Archaeologist\, Mr. Luccketti has overseen the successful completion of more than 150 Phase I\, Phase II\, and Phase III projects which have been approved by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources.  Previously\, Mr. Luccketti served as the senior research archaeologist for five years at the APVA Jamestown Rediscovery Project that discovered the 1607 James Fort at Jamestown\, Virginia. He was responsible for supervising and recording the excavations\, writing the annual field reports\, and was a co-author of three booklets produced by the APVA. In addition to his employment with the APVA\, Mr. Luccketti was an adjunct faculty member at Christopher Newport University for four years where he taught a class on Historical Archaeology. As an archaeologist with the First Colony Foundation\, Mr. Luccketti continues to play an important role in the search for the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke Island\, North Carolina. \nRebekah Planto\, PhD \nRebekah is an archaeologist interested in comparative colonialism in the Atlantic world\, with a particular focus on 17th-century British plantation projects and their effects into the present. She currently lives and works in Williamsburg\, VA\, where she recently completed her doctorate in Anthropology with a concentration in Historical Archaeology from the College of William and Mary. Her dissertation\, titled\, “‘All Seeds of Future Discords’: Lives and Afterlives of the Rebellion Era at Bacon’s Castle\, Surry County\, Virginia\, ca. 1660s-1710s\,” investigates the plantation associated with Bacon’s Castle over the first century of colonial occupation\, focusing on the decades surrounding Bacon’s Rebellion. Combining material and documentary research\, her work explores how the plantation’s diverse inhabitants—especially the unfree laborers who comprised most of the resident population—constructed\, negotiated\, and transformed this complex landscape during the transitional and historically consequential “Rebellion era.”
URL:https://baconsrebellion350.org/event/lecture-archaeology/
LOCATION:Bacon’s Castle\, 465 Bacons Castle Trail\, Surry\, Virginia\, 23883\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mapping the Dragon: An Indigenous History of Bacon's Rebellion
DESCRIPTION:“Mapping the Dragon” art by Ethan Brown\, 2026\nArtist Statement: I created this piece as a commission from Preservation Virginia for the 350th anniversary of Bacon’s Rebellion’s “Mapping the Dragon” lecture series. It depicts Pamunkeys hiding in Dragon Swamp in 1676\, while being pursued by Nathaniel Bacon. Playing off of the theme\, the horse rearing up in the background is evocative of a dragon on a crest\, harkening not only to the namesake of the location itself\, but also symbolizing the persistent bloodlust fueled pursuit. The marshy environment stands in Bacon’s way\, as the Pamunkey’s deep knowledge of the area allowed them to stay one step ahead of capture. In the foreground\, Cockacoeske\, Queen of Pamunkey\, holds an infant as a symbol of holding her people’s lives in her hands. Through her leadership they survived mostly unscathed and a year later in 1677\, she signed the Treaty of Middle Plantation. \nRarely acknowledged in historical narratives\, Virginia’s Indigenous nations shaped American history in countless ways\, including the events surrounding Nathaniel Bacon’s 1676 insurrection. Our panel brings together the project team\, drawing on traditional ecological knowledge alongside military history\, environmental and archaeological evidence\, and both traditional and non-traditional documents to highlight the Indigenous perspectives of what is now known as Bacon’s Rebellion. This program is hosted at Jamestown Settlement. \nPurchase an In-Person Event Ticket Here \nPurchase a Virtual Lecture Ticket Here \n  \nAbout the Panelists: \nAllyson Gray\, Panelist \nAllyson Gray is a Pamunkey citizen\, cultural practitioner\, and artist whose work is grounded in relationships with land\, environment\, and history. Drawing on Pamunkey knowledge and personal perspective\, she engages in conversations that explore how Indigenous histories and experiences shape our understanding of the past and present. Her perspective emphasizes the ongoing presence of Indigenous peoples and the importance of understanding landscapes as living\, meaningful spaces rather than sites of the past. \nEdward D. Ragan\, Panelist \nEdward DuBois Ragan is the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer (THPO) for the Rappahannock Tribe. He began working with the Tribe in 1996\, first\, as the historian for their federal acknowledgement project\, and since\, to assist their in cultural and historic recovery and preservation. His work is rooted in a reciprocal history that acknowledges the fundamental sovereignty of the Tribe to construct its own historical narratives based on the lived experiences of its citizens. Edward holds a Ph.D. from Syracuse University and lives in northwest Louisiana\, where he teaches at Bossier Parish Community College. \nJeff Wright\, Panelist \nTo Jeff Wright Indigenous military operations are a quintessential example of asymmetric warfare. He spent nearly five decades in government and industry applying methodologies and technologies for solving complex operational challenges related to asymmetric warfare. He is a retired Army Colonel in Military Intelligence. He is the national President and Chairman of the Board of the Old Growth Forest Network\, a Certified Virginia Master Naturalist who has logged over 7\,500 volunteer hours\, the Past President of the Friends of Dragon Run\, and a Kayak Paddle Tour Nature Guide for the Friends of Dragon Run. He is a believer in the importance of advocacy in protecting the natural world and that the environment is part of the nation’s national security dialogue\, and a priority global challenge. To leaders of all persuasion who want to drain the swamp\, No! Jeff believes we need to embrace and protect our swamps and natural landscapes and tell the story of how indigenous tribes prevailed against Nathanial Bacon’s forces in the Dragon Swamp back in 1676. \nJulia A. King\, Moderator \nJulie King is the George B. and Willma Reeves Endowed Chair in the Liberal Arts at St. Mary’s College of Maryland where she studies\, teaches\, and writes about the Chesapeake Bay region’s rich history and archaeology. She focuses on the region’s Indigenous\, African\, and settler histories and how these histories have shaped the region’s present and future. In 2018\, Julie received the J.C. Harrington Award\, from the Society for Historical Archaeology for her scholarly contributions to the field of archaeology and to the study of the early modern Atlantic through a Chesapeake lens.
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LOCATION:Jamestown Settlement\, 2110 Jamestown Rd\, Williamsburg\, Virginia\, 23185
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SUMMARY:Opportunities Lost: Bacon's Rebellion and the Denial of Class and Racial Justice in the United States
DESCRIPTION:Purchase In-Person and Livestream Event Tickets Here \nJoin us for a lecture from Dr. Michael Blakey\, National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Anthropology\, Africana Studies\, and American Studies at the College of William & Mary\, as he examines how the first opportunity for an America unblemished by the immorality of racial slavery and the injustices of class inequity was lost with Bacon’s 1676 Rebellion in Virginia\, and had a long lasting effect on efforts to achieve an America with equal rights for all. \nAbout Dr. Michael Blakey\, Ph.D. \nMichael Blakey is National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Anthropology\, Africana Studies\, and American Studies at William & Mary where he directs the Institute for Historical Biology.  He is former director of Howard University’s African Burial Ground Project in New York City and currently sits on the Scholarly Advisory Committee of the National Museum of African American History and Culture\, Smithsonian Institution. He is co-chair of the American Anthropological Association’s Commission for the Ethical Treatment of Human Remains.  Blakey is the author of more than 80 articles in refereed journals and anticipates the release of his 3-volume book\, The Blinding Light of Race; Race and Racism in Western Science and Society\, by Routledge Taylor Francis Press in 2026. He advises many descendant communities and has lectured on bioarchaeology\, publicly engaged archaeology\, and racism at universities in Africa\, Europe\, Asia\, South America\, Australia and across the United States. \n“Opportunity Lost: The Historical Anthropology of Aborted American Virtue” \nThe first opportunity for an America unblemished by the immorality of racial slavery and the injustices of class inequity was lost with Bacon’s 1676 Rebellion in Virginia. The masses of poor workers were dissatisfied with the few opportunities they had to acquire land to determine their own lives after their indentures were served. Large tracts of land were being appropriated by Royalist landowners-cum-nascent-capitalists dedicated exclusively to the profitable drug trade in tobacco.  Rebellious indentures\, African and European\, burned Jamestown to the ground in protest. The Royal Navy\, recently charged with the sole purpose of defending profits\, stopped the rebellion to offer a deal\, effectively to White indentures\, for land to the west.  Indentured Africans would simultaneously be subordinated by a newly introduced racial chattel slavery that would solve the problem of capitalists\, emerging from feudal patronage\, to control labor\, reduce its costs\, and expand trade profitable to them alone. ‘Race\,’ a new term to naturalize exclusive Christian entitlement to human rights\, would be elaborated in Western science and society for another 350 years. With it\, white privilege and elite profits continue to be protected against recognition of the injustices of American slavery\, Jim Crow\, and White backlash against efforts to achieve an America with equal rights for all.
URL:https://baconsrebellion350.org/event/opportunities-lost/
LOCATION:Historic Jamestowne\, 1368 Colonial Pkwy\, Jamestown\, VA\, 23081\, United States
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SUMMARY:Women's Perspectives on Bacon’s Rebellion: Expert Panel Discussion and Open House Tour
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Bacon’s Castle for our May Bacon’s Rebellion at 350 Years Program – featuring a panel of expert historians and archaeologists as they discuss how women participated in\, and were affected by\, Bacon’s Rebellion 350 years ago. Bacon’s Castle will also be open before and after the lecture for an open house style tour with featured stops with our panel experts. \nPurchase Your In-Person and Virtual Lecture Tickets Here \n  \nMeet the Panelists: \nBrenna Geraghty\, Education Manager\, Preservation Virginia \nBrenna Geraghty is a public historian and Education Manager for Preservation Virginia\, where she has worked since 2020. She is a 2015 graduate of VCU’s School of World Studies. Her background in archaeology and museum work has a strong focus on Surry County\, particularly in relation to Bacon’s Rebellion and its sociopolitical impacts in the lives of everyday Virginians. Brenna is passionate about the representation of women\, children\, and minorities in museum interpretation\, and has contributed to the Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation. \nMerry A. Outlaw\, Senior Curator for Jamestown Rediscovery/Preservation Virginia Senior Curator \nMerry Outlaw is the author of Following the Dragon: Chinese Ming Porcelain from James Fort\, Jamestown\, Virginia. With Bly Straube\, Senior Curator of Jamestown Settlement\, she co-curates the exhibition Following the Dragon\, which explores the global reach of Chinese porcelain in early English America. Previously\, she served as Curator of Collections at the Virginia Research Center for Archaeology\, where she cataloged materials from the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Kingsmill Plantation sites and the Drummond Site (ca. 1648–1820). For a decade\, she edited New Discoveries in Ceramics in America. She was also a member of the Smithsonian’s Written in Bone exhibition team\, which led to the excavation of the home and burial of her seventeenth-century Isle of Wight ancestor\, Colonel Joseph Bridger. \nBeverly A. (Bly) Straube\, PhD\, FSA\, Senior Curator\, Jamestown Settlement Museum\, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation \nA proud fellow of the Society of Antiquaries since 2005\, Bly earned her PhD in Archaeology and Ancient History from the University of Leicester\, England. She is Senior Curator for the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation where she is using her “17th-century brain” to enhance the Jamestown Settlement exhibition galleries. Part of the Jamestown Rediscovery project from its outset\, Bly served twenty-one years as the senior archaeological curator identifying and interpreting over 1.5 million finds from England’s first successful transatlantic colony. She loves the honesty of material culture coming out of the ground by archaeological methodologies and doing the research to uncover the new stories it can reveal. She has published and lectured on many topics related to 17th-century Virginia including ceramics\, tobacco pipes\, glass\, weaponry\, and numismatics. Her most recent article\, co-authored with Merry Outlaw\, is on the ceramic collection of rebel Sarah Drummond and will appear in Ceramics in America 2026. \nAshley Spivey\, Ph.D. (Pamunkey)\, Executive Director\, Kenah Consulting \nDr. Ashley Spivey is an historical anthropologist specializing in the archaeology and culture of Powhatan Algonquian communities located in Tidewater Virginia. Dr. Spivey’s academic and professional experience has centered on supporting tribal sovereignty through tribal cultural and natural resource management and tribal historic preservation. She has worked with tribes\, universities\, museums\, and federal and state agencies to support and implement historic preservation as well as cultural and natural resource management programs that incorporate the needs of tribal communities. As a member of the Pamunkey Indian Tribe\, Dr. Spivey has a close connection to the Indigenous communities of Virginia. This has included developing Indigenous led cultural heritage and natural resource management strategies and facilitating administrative capacity building through consultation on program development and implementation. \nAmy Stallings\, Ph.D. \nA graduate of William & Mary with a Ph.D. in Early American History\, Amy teaches for W&M’s National Institute of American History and Democracy (NIAHD) as well as developing and presenting programs for the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation.  At Jamestown\, her research has contributed to the “Women of Jamestown” walking tours\, and she has written a variety of first-person interpretations\, including performing as Lady Frances Berkeley\, the loyal and opinionated wife of Governor Sir William Berkeley.
URL:https://baconsrebellion350.org/event/womens-perspectives/
LOCATION:Bacon’s Castle\, 465 Bacons Castle Trail\, Surry\, Virginia\, 23883\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tales from a Revolution: Bacon's Rebellion and the Transformation of Early America
DESCRIPTION:Buy Your Event Tickets Here \nPurchase a Virtual Lecture Ticket Here \nHistorian James D. Rice joins us for our kick off program with a colorfully detailed account of the rebellion\, highlighting how the central events of Bacon’s Rebellion and its aftermath are woven into the founding story of America. During the Rebellion\,  the powerful\, charismatic Governor Berkeley\, the sorrowful Susquehannock warrior Monges\, the wily Indian trader and tobacco planter William Byrd\, the regal Pamunkey chieftain Cockacoeske\, and the rebel leader himself\, Nathaniel Bacon were all pulled into an escalating conflict whose outcome\, month by month\, remained uncertain. As the drama unfolded\, it became apparent that the struggle between Governor Berkeley and the impetuous Bacon was nothing less than a battle over the soul of America\, and\, moreover\, the issues at the heart of the rebellion lasted for generations. This lecture event is hosted by Jamestown Settlement. \n  \nJames D. Rice\, Ph.D. James Rice is the Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History at Tufts University\, where he teaches early American\, Native American\, and environmental history.
URL:https://baconsrebellion350.org/event/lecture-tales-from-a-revolution-bacons-rebellion-and-the-transformation-of-early-america/
LOCATION:Jamestown Settlement\, 2110 Jamestown Rd\, Williamsburg\, Virginia\, 23185
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