Wasn't it one of the Bacons' who led a revolt in colonial America that sealed the fate of the Black slave and the American Indian---Bacon's Rebellion.
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jmage at panix.com wrote:
> Carrol Cox wrote:
> >It would be
> >fascinating to speculate on the significance of Bacon being one of the very
> >earliest users of a concept
> [i.e. "identity" as The sameness of a person or thing at all times or in
> all circumstances; the condition or fact that a person or thing is itself
> and not something else; individuality, personality]
> >so intrinsic to bourgeois individualism.
>
> And that John Dunne tried to strangle the imp in the cradle?
>
> 'Tis all in pieces, all cohaerence gone;
> All just supply, and all Relation:
> Prince, Subject, Father, Sonne, are things forgot,
> For every man thinks he hath got
> To be a Phoenix, and that there can be
> None of that kinde, of which he is, but hee.
>
> *The First Anniversarie*, lines 213-8
>
> Does anyone know of a good Raymond Williams type history of the emergence
> of this sense of "identity"?
>
> John Mage