Early American Rebels (eBook)

Pursuing Democracy from Maryland to Carolina, 1640–1700

Noeleen McIlvenna (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
182 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-5607-6 (ISBN)

Infos

During the half century after 1650 that saw the gradual imposition of a slave society in Englands 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 Ingles Rebellion, Fendalls Rebellion, Bacons Rebellion, Culpepers Rebellion, Parson Waughs Tumult, and the colonial Glorious Revolution were episodes in a single struggle because they were organized by one connected group of people.Adding land records and genealogical research to traditional sources, Noeleen McIlvenna challenges standard narratives that disdain poor whites or leave them out of the history of the colonial South. She makes the case that the women of these families played significant roles in every attempt to establish a more representative political system before 1700. McIlvenna integrates landless immigrants and small farmers into the history of the Chesapeake region and argues that these rebellious anti-authoritarians should be included in the pantheon of the nations Founders.

Autor

Noeleen McIlvenna is professor of history at Wright State University and author of A Very Mutinous People and The Short Life of Free Georgia.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.5.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 1 fig., 2 maps
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Albemarle history • Bacon’s Rebellion • Battle of the Severn • Class struggle • colonial Maryland • colonial North Carolina • colonial virginia • Culpeper’s rebellion • early settlements • Fendall’s rebellion • Glorious Revolution in the colonies • Ingle’s rebellion • introduction of slavery • Parson Waugh’s tumult • poor whites • Protestant Association • Republicanism • seventeenth century • southern history • southern rebels • Women’s history
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-5607-8 / 1469656078
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-5607-6 / 9781469656076