<P> Edmund S. Morgan's classic 1975 American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia connected the calamity of Bacon's Rebellion, namely the potential for lower - class revolt, with the colony's transition over to slavery: "...But for those with eyes to see, there was an obvious lesson in the rebellion . Resentment of an alien race might be more powerful than resentment of an upper class . Virginians did not immediately grasp it . It would sink in as time went on. ..." </P> <P> James Rice's 2012 narrative Tales from a Revolution: Bacon's Rebellion and the Transformation of Early America, whose emphasis on Bacon's flaws echoes The Governor and the Rebel, integrates the rebellion into a larger story emphasizing the actions of multiple Native Americans, as well as placing it in the context of English politics; in this telling, the climax of Bacon's Rebellion comes with the Glorious Revolution of 1688 / 89 . </P> <P> Despite recent historians' views of the conflict, many in the early United States, including Thomas Jefferson, saw Bacon as a patriot and believed that Bacon's Rebellion was a prelude to the later American Revolution against English colonial rule . This understanding of the conflict was reflected in twentieth - century commemorations, including a memorial window in Colonial Williamsburg, and a prominent tablet in the Virginia House of Delegates chamber of the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, which recalls Bacon as "A great Patriot Leader of the Virginia People who died while defending their rights October 26, 1676 ." </P> <P> It is reported by Robert Beverley, in his 1705 book on the history of Virginia, that some British soldiers who had been dispatched to Jamestown to quell Bacon's Rebellion gathered and ate leaves of Datura stramonium, and spent eleven days acting in bizarre and foolish ways before recovering . This led to the plant being known as Jamestown weed, and later jimsonweed . </P>

This event brought great social upheaval and change to virginia in 1676