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Farming dissenters : the Regulator movement in Piedmont North Carolina

Title
Farming dissenters : the Regulator movement in Piedmont North Carolina / Carole Watterson Troxler.
Author
Troxler, Carole Watterson.
Publication
Raleigh, N.C. : Office of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 2011.

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Additional Authors
North Carolina. Office of Archives and History.
Description
xiii, 221 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Alamance Creek, Battle of, N.C., 1771
  • North Carolina > History > Regulator Insurrection, 1766-1771
  • North Carolina > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p.167-201) and index.
Contents
Illustrations -- Foreword -- Introduction : the Regulators and Alamance -- Land speculation and a geographic imbalance of power -- Orderly outbursts of backcountry resentment -- A century's legacy : dissenter religious culture as a carrier of political expectations -- Herman Husband, crystallizer -- The Sandy Creek network and its allies in the Regulator movement -- The gentlemen's agreement in Mecklenburg -- Petitions, court proceedings, and rioting in Hillsborough and Salisbury -- Tryon's militia, Regulator confrontation, and the Battle of Alamance -- Regulators as victims : repercussions of the militia attack -- Politics at work before the Revolution -- Land ownership and local power -- Religious divergence and growing support for revolution -- Appendix 1 : an incomplete compilation of names in a Regulator context -- Appendix 2 : Bibliographic essay : the historians and the Regulators -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index.
ISBN
  • 9780865263505 (pbk.)
  • 0865263507 (pbk.)
LCCN
2011284077
OCLC
  • ocn732344370
  • SCSB-1611425
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library