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Author McIlvenna, Noeleen, 1963-

Title A very mutinous people : the struggle for North Carolina, 1660-1713 / Noeleen McIlvenna
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 212 pages) : maps
Series North Carolina History & Culture anthology
North Carolina History & Culture anthology
NC LIVE module
Contents The first generation. Escape to the swamp, 1660-1663 ; Building the sanctuary, 1664-1673 ; Culpeper's Rebellion, 1673-1680 ; The rise and fall of Seth Sothell, 1681-1695 -- The second generation. Challenge of the Anglicans I : church establishment, 1695-1707 ; Challenge of the Anglicans II : Native American resistance, 1695-1707 ; Cary's Rebellion, 1708-1711 ; One final fight for freedom, 1711-1713
Summary According to Noeleen McIlvenna, the true exemplars of egalitarian political values fled Virginia's plantation society late in the 17th century to create the first successful European colony in the Albemarle, in present-day North Carolina. Tapping into previously unused documents, McIlvenna explains how North Carolina's first planters struggled to impose a plantation society upon the settlers and how those early small farmers, defending a wide franchise and religious toleration, steadfastly resisted. She contends that the story of the Albemarle colony is a microcosm of the greater process by wh
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-205) and index
Notes Print version record
In North Carolina History & Culture
Subject Farmers -- North Carolina -- History
Community life -- North Carolina -- History
Equality -- North Carolina -- History
Landowners -- North Carolina -- History
Anglicans -- North Carolina -- History
Social conflict -- North Carolina -- History
HISTORY -- State & Local.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Anglicans
Community life
Equality
Farmers
Landowners
Social conflict
Social conditions
SUBJECT North Carolina -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092484
North Carolina -- Social conditions -- 17th century
North Carolina -- Social conditions -- 18th century
Albemarle Sound (N.C.) -- History
Subject Atlantic Ocean -- Albemarle Sound
North Carolina
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780807887929
0807887927
9781469605661
146960566X
9780807887912
0807887919