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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: 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 |
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| 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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Abstract:
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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