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Farming dissenters : the Regulator movement in Piedmont North Carolina
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- Creator
- Carole Watterson Troxler
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- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Raleigh, N.C. : Office of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 2011
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 221 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780865263505, 0865263507
- OCLC
- ocn732344370
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-201) and index.
- 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