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A New Light "Infestation": Charles Woodmason on Colonial Piedmont Religion Commentary
North Carolinians do not think of the present-day and economically thriving Piedmont as an ignorant backcountry that undermines social order. But in the eastern part of the Province of North Carolina during the Pre-Revolutionary Period (1750-1775) many believed it was exactly that.
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1771 Alamance: The First Battle of Our American Revolution Commentary
The "shot heard round the world" and the one that started the American Revolution, many argue, occurred at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts in 1775. Independent historian Bill Price II argues that the first shots were actually on a Piedmont field in 1771 during the Regulator Rebellion.
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Comparing the Occupy Movement to Our Regulator Rebellion Commentary
America's difficult economic situation has generated often contradictory reactions and proposed solutions. One part of America blames the big banks. Another points to the government. Still others, with a more subtle insight, find fault with the combination of big government and big corporations. All this reminded me of the protests during the 1760s and early 1770s in Piedmont North Carolina called the Regulator Rebellion.
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Edenton Tea Party: An American First Commentary
Many Americans have heard of the Boston Tea Party of 1773. Far less can tell of the Edenton Tea Party of 1774. I can count a few, but I have some fingers left.
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Hostility and Abuse of Power Is Nothing New Commentary
American dislike of taxes is nothing new. As early as 1665, North Carolinians despised taxes — even if deemed necessary — and they especially loathed abuse of power and mismanagement of revenue. In particular, North Carolinians’ irritation with the quitrent, basically a land tax, intensified during the early 1700s, when the new provincial governmenAt tried collecting back taxes and the Assembly and royal officials debated the proper role of the government and its use of the quitrent.
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Gordon Wood: Revolutionary Characters Commentary
On March 27, 2007, Pulitzer Prize winner Gordon Wood discussed his recent book,
Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different, at a North Carolina History Project Headliner Luncheon. His entire lecture can be viewed here.
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The Halifax Resolves Signaled a Victory for the Grass-Roots Commentary
First, there was the Halifax Resolves. Then there was the Declaration of Independence.
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The State of Franklin: Mountain Secession and Independent Thought Commentary
In North Carolina, regionalism has existed since day one. In August 1784, western North Carolinians established the
State of Franklin—“the only de facto state that functioned in every aspect of statal power,” writes historian Samuel Cole Williams. After a civil war in the mountains, however, the “Lost State of Franklin” ceased in February 1789.
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When Wilmington Threw A Tea Party: Women and Political Awareness in Revolution-Era North Carolina Commentary
Most readers are familiar with the details of the Boston Tea Party of 1773, and properly identify it as a key event in the radical movement that triggered the American Revolution. Many North Carolinians have also heard of the Edenton Tea Party of October 1774, when the leading women of that Eastern North Carolina town did not actually dump tea in a nearby sound but did stage one of the nation’s earliest acts of political theater by women. But how many are familiar with the far more incendiary Wilmington Tea Party of 1775, also led by women?
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