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Breaking loose together : the Regulator Rebellion in pre-revolutionary North Carolina

Author: Marjoleine Kars
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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.
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Kars, Marjoleine.
Breaking loose together.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002
(OCoLC)606757145
Online version:
Kars, Marjoleine.
Breaking loose together.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002
(OCoLC)609262349
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Marjoleine Kars
ISBN: 0807826723 9780807826720 0807849995 9780807849996
OCLC Number: 47755765
Description: x, 286 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Marjoleine Kars.
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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.

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