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A very mutinous people : the struggle for North Carolina, 1660-1713 / Noeleen McIlvenna.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McIlvenna, Noeleen, 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Farmers--North Carolina--History.
- Farmers.
- Community life--North Carolina--History.
- Community life.
- Equality--North Carolina--History.
- Equality.
- Landowners--North Carolina--History.
- Landowners.
- Anglicans--North Carolina--History.
- Anglicans.
- Social conflict--North Carolina--History.
- Social conflict.
- North Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- North Carolina.
- North Carolina--Social conditions--17th century.
- North Carolina--Social conditions--18th century.
- Albemarle Sound (N.C.)--History.
- Albemarle Sound (N.C.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Historians have often glorified eighteenth-century Virginia planters' philosophical debates about the meaning of American liberty. But according to Noeleen McIlvenna, the true exemplars of egalitarian political values had fled Virginia's plantation society late in the seventeenth century to create the first successful European colony in the Albemarle, in present-day North Carolina. Making their way through the Great Dismal Swamp, runaway servants from Virginia joined other renegades to establish a free society along the most inaccessible Atlantic coastline of North America. They create
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-205) and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908819-6-0
- 979-88-9313-282-3
- 1-4696-0566-X
- 0-8078-8791-9
- 0-8078-8792-7
- OCLC:
- 456566470
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