附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-277) and index.
Economics -- Breaking the way: Colonizing the North Carolina Piedmont -- Robed of It All by a Few Roguish Individuals: Land Grievances -- It Would Be Enough to Make Us Turn Rebels: Debt, Taxes, and the Courts -- Religion -- The Spirit Within: Protestant Radicalism from the Reformation to the Great Awakening in the South -- Fashioning Christ's Coat: Beyond Denomination -- Into a Ranting Spirit: Religious Radicalism and Agrarian Activism -- Politics -- Liberty to Make Our Grievances Known: Organizing Popular Protest, August 1766-May 1768 -- But by a Due Course of Law: Petitioning the Governor, May 1768-September 1768 -- Debarr'd of Justice: Legal Means Fail, November 1768-December 1769 -- War -- Coming to See Justice Done: Growing Exasperation, January 1770-December 1770 -- To Force Us to Submit to Tyranny: The Battle of Alamance, January 1771-June 1771 -- Whipped Twice: Consequences -- Epilogue.
摘要:The Regulator Rebellion of 1766-71 pitted thousands of farmers against political and economic elites who opposed the Regulators' proposed reforms. This work delves deeply into the world and ideology of free rural colonists, examining the rebellion's economic, religious and political roots.
