The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina | Marjoleine Kars
Join the Institute in observing the 250th anniversary of events of the American Revolutionary era with a lecture on the Regulator Rebellion from Marjoleine Kars. Years before shots rang out at Lexington and Concord, backcountry settlers in the North Carolina Piedmont launched their own defiant bid for economic independence and political liberty. The Regulator Rebellion of 1766-1771 arose from the conflict created by competing ideologies and goals between the religious outlook of evangelical Protestants and mainstream Anglicans; between the aspirations of ordinary people to secure their land claims and the intransigence of the colonial administration and the absentee English aristocrats who held formal title to the region but refused to set up a land office for the orderly sale and recording of land titles; and between tidewater planters anxious to maintain their hold on political authority and the new arrivals in the interior, most of them from Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, whose demands for just representation threatened to shift the regional balance of power in the colony. The conflict culminated in the Battle of Alamance on May 16, 1771, when a colonial militia defeated more than two thousand armed farmers in a pitched battle near Hillsborough.
Using diaries, church minutes, legal papers and the richly detailed accounts of the Regulators themselves, Dr. Kars will delve into the world and ideology of free rural colonists, examining the rebellion's economic, religious and political roots and exploring its legacy in North Carolina and beyond. The compelling story of the Regulator Rebellion reveals just how sharply elite and popular notions of independence differed on the eve of the Revolution.
About the Speaker
Marjoleine Kars is a professor of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where she teaches early American history, Atlantic history and women’s history. A native of The Netherlands, she received her B.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University. She is the author of Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina (2002) and Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast (2020), which examines a massive slave rebellion in the Dutch colony Berbice (present-day Guyana) in South America. She is a senior editor for International Labor and Working Class History and a regular book reviewer for the Washington Post.
SUBSCRIBE to our channel: bit.ly/3DxZnrJ
Follow us on social media:
Facebook: / americanrevolutioninst...
Instagram: / americanrevolutioninst...
Twitter: / amrevinstitute
Stay updated by joining our mailing list: bit.ly/3TpfhdL
Become an Associate of the American Revolution Institute: bit.ly/3Bonuqp
Visit our website: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org
Learn more and explore future and past programs: www.americanrevolutioninstitute.org/events
#amrevinstitute
Пікірлер: 16
So good are these programs as I was ignorant of the history of my country. Wish we had the backbone of these citizen farmers amoungst us now.
This is an outstanding treatment of an important topic. I am gratified to have heard fine, critical scholarship that sheds light on a topic of great interest to my research.
My ancestor was also hanged. Capt. Robert Messer.
@titmouse31
Жыл бұрын
He's my ancestor too. Howdy family.
I've been watching these videos for the last few days. I'm surprised at how ignorant I've been about my understanding of the late 18th century colonial and revolutionary America. I've got 9 ancestors who fought in the Revolution.... One of them being Nathan Harper of Dobbs Co (later Lenoir Co) who fought in Sharpes Regiment of the NC Continental Line. This was very educational of what his life, and the lives around him, were like back then.
I found out recently that Benjamin Merrill was my ancestor! I lived in the Piedmont area for a few years. That's so wild.
@joshuasmith4018
Жыл бұрын
Hello, fellow Merrill descendant! 😊
Big thanks for this. It's interesting why the story of the Carolina Regulation never persisted into the standard account of the lead up to the American Revolution. I have ideas about that, but I won't inflict them on anybody here. lol One of my 5th gr grandfathers was involved in the Regulation. He was Herman Husband. The last Husband in my family was a gr grandmother.
Hi my great great great great grandfather was Captain Charles Saxon. He was a regulator.
i think there was an uprising in south carlina as well
Thanks!
thank you, great perspective on the common man if you will.
Is there any information about Captain Charles Saxon ? Thank you!