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

Author/Contributor(s):	McIlvenna, Noeleen
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	05/18/2020
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"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"--