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<Tab/>Some might argue that Bacon's rebellion was the first American Revolution for liberty. Long-standing tensions between small "freeholders and the elite" of Virginia colony burst suddenly into the open in 1676. The "elite" had previously remained united to maintain its hold on the best lands of the colony and other privileges. That suddenly changed in April. Bacon's Rebellion is considered to be the most important event in the establishment of democracy …

…we normally say that slavery and freedom are opposite things -that they are diametrically opposed. But what we see here in Virginia in the late 17th century, around Bacon's Rebellion, is that freedom and slavery were created at the same moment. This revolutionary event was not only a prologue to the American Revolution but also influenced governmental procedures and foreign policies throughout the world, thus becoming the most significant event leading towards modern representative democracy.