Farming dissenters
Subtitle: the Regulator movement in Piedmont North Carolina
By: Carole Watterson Troxler
Contributors: North Carolina. Office of Archives and History
Publisher: Office of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Raleigh, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780865263505
Subjects: History; Alamance Creek, Battle of, N.C., 1771
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.167-201) and index.
Table of contents: title: Illustrations; title: Foreword; title: Introduction : the Regulators and Alamance; title: Land speculation and a geographic imbalance of power; title: Orderly outbursts of backcountry resentment; title: A century's legacy : dissenter religious culture as a carrier of political expectations; title: Herman Husband, crystallizer; title: The Sandy Creek network and its allies in the Regulator movement; title: The gentlemen's agreement in Mecklenburg; title: Petitions, court proceedings, and rioting in Hillsborough and Salisbury; title: Tryon's militia, Regulator confrontation, and the Battle of Alamance; title: Regulators as victims : repercussions of the militia attack; title: Politics at work before the Revolution; title: Land ownership and local power; title: Religious divergence and growing support for revolution; title: Appendix 1 : an incomplete compilation of names in a Regulator context; title: Appendix 2 : Bibliographic essay : the historians and the Regulators; title: Endnotes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.