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Bacon’s Rebellion Wax Museum

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This late twentieth-century postcard shows a Williamsburg wax museum depiction of Bacon’s Rebellion. Based on a real historical scene, the wax sculpture of Governor William Berkeley bares his chest to Nathaniel Bacon, daring the rebel to shoot him. Bacon is depicted as a dark haired, dashing cavalier, the way which most historical novels of the nineteenth-century described him. Berkeley and his companion are similarly inaccurately dressed in the style of the late 1700s.

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