Article: Samuel Wiseman's Book of Record: The Official Account of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, 1676-1677.(Book review)

Samuel Wiseman's Book of Record: The Official Account of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, 1676-1677. Edited by Michael Leroy Oberg. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Lexington Books, c. 2005. Pp. viii, 296. $70.00, ISBN 0-7391-9711-9.)

This volume is a collection of the documents of the official commission sent to Virginia to inquire into the causes of the rebellion. Although it breaks little new ground, it is a convenient, one-volume edition of the papers collated by Samuel Wiseman, who served as secretary to the commissioners. After an introduction in which he lays out a brief history of the background of the rebellion and its historiography, Michael Leroy Oberg ...

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