Very Mutinous People The Struggle for North Carolina, 1660-1713

Name: Very Mutinous People The Struggle for North Carolina, 1660-1713
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ISBN: 9780807832868

ISBN-10: 0807832863

ISBN-13: 9780807832868

Edition: 2009

Authors: Noeleen McIlvenna

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Historians have often glorified eighteenth-century Virginia planters' philosophical debates about the meaning of American liberty. But according to Noeleen McIlvenna, the true exemplars of egalitarian political values had fled Virginia's plantation society late in the seventeenth century to create the first successful European colony in the Albemarle, in present-day North Carolina.Making their way through the Great Dismal Swamp, runaway servants from Virginia joined other renegades to establish a free society along the most inaccessible Atlantic coastline of North America. They created a new community on the banks of Albemarle Sound, maintaining peace with neighboring Native Americans,…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 6/1/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Noeleen McIlvenna is assistant professor of history at Wright State University in Ohio.



Acknowledgments


Introduction


Prologue



The First Generation



Escape to the Swamp, 1660-1663



Building the Sanctuary, 1664-1673



Culpeper's Rebellion, 1673-1680



The Rise and Fall of Seth Sothell, 1681-1695



The Second Generation



Challenge of the Anglicans I: Church Establishment, 1695-1707



Challenge of the Anglicans II: Native American Resistance, 1695-1707



Cary's Rebellion, 1708-1711



One Final Fight for Freedom, 1711-1713


Afterword


Notes


Bibliography


Index