North carolina's revolutionary founders / edited by Jeff Broadwater and Troy L. Kickler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Broadwater, Jeff, editor.

Kickler, Troy, editor.

Series:

North Carolina scholarship online.

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politicians--North Carolina--History--17th century.

Politicians.

Politicians--North Carolina--Biography.

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

North Carolina.

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

Summary:

This collection of essays profiles a diverse array of North Carolinians, all of whom had a hand in the founding of the state and the United States of America. It includes stories of how men who stood together to fight the British soon chose opposing sides in political debates over the ratification of the supreme law of the land, the Constitution. It also includes accounts of women, freedmen, and Native Americans, whose narratives shed light on the important roles of marginalized peoples in the Revolutionary South. Together, the essays reveal the philosophical views and ideology of North Carolina's revolutionaries.

Contents:

Introduction. North Carolina in an age of revolution / Jeff Broadwater and Troy L. Kickler

Part I. The revolutionaries. Treasonous tea: the Edenton Tea Party of 1774 / Maggie Hartley Mitchell

Declaring independence: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, and John Penn / Jeff Broadwater

Part II. The West. Caught between two fires: the Catawba and the Cherokee choose sides in the American Revolution / James MacDonald

Our common country: John Sevier and the American Revolution / Michael Toomey

Part III. The federalists. Hugh Williamson: North Carolina federalist / Jennifer Davis-Doyle

An ordinary founder: Richard Dobbs Spaight Sr. / Karl Rodabaugh

The political views of Richard Caswell and the founding of the new nation / Lloyd Johnson

James Iredell: revolutionist, constitutionalist, jurist / Willis P. Whichard

Part IV. The anti-federalists. Samuel Spencer, anti-federalist / Jason Stroud

Willie Jones / Kyle Scott

Part V. The legatees of the Revolution. William R. Davie: North Carolina's patriot partisan / Scott King-Owen

John Chavis: quiet leader of an early revolution / Benjamin R. Justesen

Two North Carolinians, same goal, different approaches: an examination of the political lives and philosophies of Nathaniel Macon and Archibald D. Murphey / Troy L. Kickler.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 12, 2020).

Previously issued in print: 2019.

ISBN:

9798890848222

9798890848239

9781469651217

1469651211

9781469651224

146965122X

OCLC:

1090800337