A Very Mutinous People : The Struggle for North Carolina, 1660-1713 /

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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...

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Main Author: McIlvenna, Noeleen, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social conditions
Social conflict.
Landowners.
Farmers.
Equality.
Community life.
Anglicans.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
HISTORY > State & Local.
Anglicans > Caroline du Nord > Histoire.
Proprietaires fonciers > Caroline du Nord > Histoire.
Communaute > Caroline du Nord > Histoire.
Agriculteurs > Caroline du Nord > Histoire.
Social conflict > North Carolina > History.
Anglicans > North Carolina > History.
Landowners > North Carolina > History.
Equality > North Carolina > History.
Community life > North Carolina > History.
Farmers > North Carolina > History.
North Carolina.
Atlantic Ocean > Albemarle Sound.
Albemarle, Detroit d' (Car. du N.) > Histoire.
Caroline du Nord > Conditions sociales > 18e siecle.
Caroline du Nord > Conditions sociales > 17e siecle.
Caroline du Nord > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Periode coloniale)
Albemarle Sound (N.C.) > History.
North Carolina > Social conditions > 18th century.
North Carolina > Social conditions > 17th century.
North Carolina > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (224 pages): maps
ISBN:9781469605661

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