Breaking Loose Together The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina

Name: Breaking Loose Together The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina
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ISBN: 9780807849996

ISBN-10: 0807849995

ISBN-13: 9780807849996

Edition: 2002

Authors: Marjoleine Kars

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Ten years before the start of the American Revolution, backcountry settlers in the North Carolina Piedmont launched their own defiant bid for economic independence and political liberty. The Regulator Rebellion of 1766-71 pitted thousands of farmers, many of them religious radicals inspired by the Great Awakening, against political and economic elites who opposed the Regulators' proposed reforms. The conflict culminated on May 16, 1771, when a colonial militia defeated more than 2,000 armed farmers in a pitched battle near Hillsborough. At least 6,000 Regulators and sympathizers were forced to swear their allegiance to the government as the victorious troops undertook a punitive march…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/25/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Marjoleine Kars is associate professor of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.



Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Breaking Loose Together


Introduction



Economics



Colonizing the North Carolina Piedmont



Land Grievances



Debt, Taxes, and the Courts



Religion



Protestant Radicalism from the Reformation to the Great Awakening in the South



Beyond Denomination



Religious Radicalism and Agrarian Activism



Politics



Organizing Popular Protest, August 1766-may 1768



Petitioning the Governor, May 1768-september 1768



Legal Means Fail, November 1768-december 1769



War



Growing Exasperation, January 1770-december 1770



The Battle of Alamance, January 1771-june 1771



Consequences


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography of Sources Cited


Index