Early American Rebels: Pursuing Democracy from Maryland to Carolina, 1640-1700
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.

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 nation's Founders.
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Early American Rebels: Pursuing Democracy from Maryland to Carolina, 1640-1700
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.

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 nation's Founders.
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Early American Rebels: Pursuing Democracy from Maryland to Carolina, 1640-1700

Early American Rebels: Pursuing Democracy from Maryland to Carolina, 1640-1700

by Noeleen McIlvenna
Early American Rebels: Pursuing Democracy from Maryland to Carolina, 1640-1700

Early American Rebels: Pursuing Democracy from Maryland to Carolina, 1640-1700

by Noeleen McIlvenna

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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.

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 nation's Founders.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781469656076
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 03/19/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 182
Sales rank: 123,108
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

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

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McIlvenna has woven together a rich tapestry of voices from the early Chesapeake, ranging from Maryland and Virginia and down into the North Carolina region, and traces a potent brew of kin and allies between the various uprisings and political conflicts of the seventeenth century, putting them in the context of empire.—Holly Brewer, University of Maryland

McIlvenna proves that popular challenges to elite social and economic interests shaped and reshaped the transatlantic political culture of the seventeenth-century Chesapeake. Her recovery of the region's largely forgotten freedom struggles could not be more timely, as it empowers, through the creation of a fruitful memory, democratic resistance to the tyrants of our own time.—John Donoghue, Loyola University Chicago

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