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Author Kars, Marjoleine.

Title Breaking loose together : the Regulator Rebellion in pre-revolutionary North Carolina / Marjoleine Kars.

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  975.602 K148b 2002    ---  Lib Use Only
Description x, 286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-277) and index.
Contents Part 1: Economics -- Breaking the way: colonizing the North Carolina piedmont -- Robed of it all by a few roguish individuals: land grievances -- It would be enough to make us turn rebels: debt, taxes, and the courts -- Part 2: Religion -- The spirit within: Protestant radicalism from the reformation to the great awakening in the South -- Fashioning Christ's coat: beyond denomination -- Into a ranting spirit: religious radicalism and agrarian activism -- Part 3: Politics -- Liberty to make out grievances known: organizing popular protest, August 1766-May 1768 -- But by a due course of law: petitioning the governor, May 1768-September 1768 -- Debarr'd of justice: legal means fail, November 1768-December 1769 -- Part 4: War -- Coming to see justice done: growing exasperation, January 1770-December 1770 -- To force us to submit to tyranny: The Battle of Alamance, January 1771-June 1771 -- Whipped twice: consequences.
Summary Settlers and farmers in Piedmont North Carolina stage a revolution against their local British government, prompted in large part by the religious thought spurred by the Great Awakening and their populist agrarian tendencies.
Subject Regulator Insurrection (North Carolina : 1766-1771) (OCoLC)fst01354221
North Carolina -- History -- Regulator Insurrection, 1766-1771.
North Carolina. (OCoLC)fst01204304
Chronological Term 1766-1771
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 0807826723 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780807826720 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0807849995 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780807849996 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

 
    
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