Description |
1 online resource (x, 212 pages) : maps |
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North Carolina History & Culture anthology |
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North Carolina History & Culture anthology
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NC LIVE module
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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 |
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North Carolina History & Culture |
Subject |
Farmers -- North Carolina -- History
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Community life -- North Carolina -- History
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Equality -- North Carolina -- History
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Landowners -- North Carolina -- History
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Anglicans -- North Carolina -- History
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Social conflict -- North Carolina -- History
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HISTORY -- State & Local.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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Anglicans
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Community life
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Equality
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Farmers
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Landowners
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Social conflict
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Social conditions
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SUBJECT |
North Carolina -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092484
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North Carolina -- Social conditions -- 17th century
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North Carolina -- Social conditions -- 18th century
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Albemarle Sound (N.C.) -- History
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Atlantic Ocean -- Albemarle Sound
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North Carolina
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780807887929 |
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0807887927 |
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9781469605661 |
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146960566X |
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9780807887912 |
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0807887919 |
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