The War of the Regulation and the Battle of Alamance, May 16, 1771
Title | The War of the Regulation and the Battle of Alamance, May 16, 1771 PDF eBook |
Author | William S. Powell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Alamance Creek, Battle of, N.C., 1771 |
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The Battle of Alamance, May 16, 1771
Title | The Battle of Alamance, May 16, 1771 PDF eBook |
Author | A. Howard White |
Publisher | |
Pages | 22 |
Release | 1958 |
Genre | Alamance County (N.C.) |
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The Battle of Alamance, May 16, 1771
Title | The Battle of Alamance, May 16, 1771 PDF eBook |
Author | Howard White |
Publisher | |
Pages | 22 |
Release | 1955 |
Genre | Alamance Creek, Battle of, N.C., 1771 |
ISBN |
The War of the Regulation and the Battle of Alamance, May 16, 1771
Title | The War of the Regulation and the Battle of Alamance, May 16, 1771 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | |
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Breaking Loose Together
Title | Breaking Loose Together PDF eBook |
Author | Marjoleine Kars |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2003-04-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807860379 |
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 through Regulator settlements. Seven farmers were hanged. Using sources that include diaries, church minutes, legal papers, and the richly detailed accounts of the Regulators themselves, Marjoleine Kars delves deeply into the world and ideology of free rural colonists. She examines the rebellion's economic, religious, and political roots and explores its legacy in North Carolina and beyond. The compelling story of the Regulator Rebellion reveals just how sharply elite and popular notions of independence differed on the eve of the Revolution.
The regulators of North Carolina
Title | The regulators of North Carolina PDF eBook |
Author | John Spencer Bassett |
Publisher | Рипол Классик |
Pages | 75 |
Release | 1894 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 5874744894 |
Farming Dissenters
Title | Farming Dissenters PDF eBook |
Author | Carole Watterson Troxler |
Publisher | North Carolina Division of Archives & History |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780865263505 |
In this new study, Dr. Carole Troxler steps back more than two decades before the pivotal Battle of Alamance (May 16, 1771) to examine the issues and their cultural context that fostered the Regulator Movement and determined its progress, and political aftermath. This is the story of local government more interested in its needs than those of its constituents--and of settlers steeped in the Dissenter religious culture who drew on its political orientation to risk activism often cited as a prelude to the American Revolution.