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Early American rebels : pursuing democracy from Maryland to Carolina, 1640-1700 / Noeleen McIlvenna

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McIlvenna, Noeleen, 1963-
Published
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 168 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Ingle's Rebellion, 1638-1650 -- Fendall's Rebellion, 1650s -- Albemarle and other fringes, 1661-1674 -- Revolution in the Chesapeake, 1675-1679 -- Papists in trouble, 1681-1688 -- Religion is but policy, 1689-1699.
Summary
"During the half century after 1650 that saw the gradual imposition of a slave society in England's North American colonies, poor white settlers in the Chesapeake sought a republic of equals. Demanding a say in their own destinies, rebels moved around the region looking for a place to build a democratic political system. This book crosses colonial boundaries to show how Ingle's Rebellion, Fendall's Rebellion, Bacon's Rebellion, Culpeper's Rebellion, Parson Waugh's Tumult, and the colonial Glorious Revolution were episodes in a single struggle because they were organized by one connected group of people"--
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ISBN
9781469656083 (electronic bk.)
1469656086 (electronic bk.)
9781469656076 (electronic bk.)
1469656078 (electronic bk.)
9781469656052 (cloth)
1469656051 (cloth)
9781469656069 (paperback)
146965606X (paperback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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