historical examples of groups joining together across race/class/ethnic boundaries

• Bacon's Rebellion, 1676-1677
  • European indentured servants joined Black people (enslaved, indentured, and free).
  • In the aftermath, the Virginia Slave Codes of 1705 were written to discourage collaboration between free and enslaved people.
• Haitian Revolution, 1791-1804
  • Free Blacks — Although free Blacks were allowed to own land and property, and were sometimes wealthy, some even owning slaves themselves, they weren't allowed to vote.
  • (TODO — add more, maybe about how poor whites saw the issue?)