A very mutinous people the struggle for North Carolina, 1660-1713 /

• Main Author: McIlvenna, Noeleen, 1963-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009.
• Subjects: 1600 - 1799; Farmers > History. > North Carolina; Community life > History. > North Carolina; Equality > History. > North Carolina; Landowners > History. > North Carolina; Anglicans > History. > North Carolina; Social conflict > History. > North Carolina; HISTORY > State & Local.; HISTORY > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) > State & Local > United States; Anglicans.; Community life.; Equality.; Farmers.; Landowners.; Social conflict.; Social history.; Electronic books.; North Carolina > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.; North Carolina > Social conditions > 17th century.; North Carolina > Social conditions > 18th century.; Albemarle Sound (N.C.) > History.; Atlantic Ocean > Albemarle Sound.; North Carolina.; History.
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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 expl...

Table of 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.