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How did bacon's rebellion relate to the institutionalization of slavery?

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Each promised freedom to slaves and servants who would join their cause. But Bacon's following was much greater than Berkeley's. In September of 1676, Baconand his men set Jamestown on fire. This fear hastened the transition to racial slavery.
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