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Article: Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina.(Book Review)
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- June 22, 2004
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Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina. By Marjoleine Kars. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. x, 286. $49.95.)
On 16 May 1771, around 1,100 militiamen confronted nearly two thousand protesting backcountry farmers (known as Regulators) near Alamance Creek, North Carolina. After a two-hour battle in which nearly thirty men were killed and more than 150 were wounded, the "Regulator Rebellion," which had been raging across the North Carolina Piedmont since 1766, collapsed. The victorious militia launched a punitive march across the backcountry, forcing the Regulators and their sympathizers to ...