Breaking Loose Together
Breaking Loose Together

Author: Marjoleine Kars

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2003-04-03

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 0807860379

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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 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.

Farming Dissenters
Farming Dissenters

Author: Carole Watterson Troxler

Publisher: North Carolina Division of Archives & History

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780865263505

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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.

Account of the South Carolina Regulators
Account of the South Carolina Regulators

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1768

Total Pages: 2

ISBN-13:

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An account, 16 August 1768, Charleston, South Carolina, printed in the Boston Chronicle citing "outrageous opposition offered to the civil authority" near Mars Bluff, referring to two groups of regulators--"the honest party and the rogues party," and providing details re the incidents.

The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution
The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution

Author: Charles Woodmason

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2013-04-01

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1469600021

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In what is probably the fullest and most vivid extant account of the American Colonial frontier, The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution gives shape to the daily life, thoughts, hopes, and fears of the frontier people. It is set forth by one of the most extraordinary men who ever sought out the wilderness--Charles Woodmason, an Anglican minister whose moral earnestness and savage indignation, combined with a vehement style, make him worthy of comparison with Swift. The book consists of his journal, selections from the sermons he preached to his Backcountry congregations, and the letters he wrote to influential people in Charleston and England describing life on the frontier and arguing the cause of the frontier people. Woodmason's pleas are fervent and moving; his narrative and descriptive style is colorful to a degree attained by few writers in Colonial America.

The Regulators of North Carolina (1765-1771) - Scholar's Choice Edition
The Regulators of North Carolina (1765-1771) - Scholar's Choice Edition

Author: John S. (From Old Catalog] Bassett

Publisher:

Published: 2015-02-12

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9781293982426

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