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Category Archives: North Carolina
Slaves in the American Revolution
Introduction Despite what the founding fathers said or wrote, the “new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” began as a slave society. This unhappy fact has left an indelible imprint on … Continue reading
The Backcountry
But first, some geography We will be talking about Virginia — sometimes referred to as the Old Dominion because Virginia was the first English colony and the dominion of English kings and queens. We will also be speaking about the … Continue reading
The North Carolina Regulator War
Introduction In the year 1700, around 200,000 people lived in the British colonies in North America. In the next 100 years, the population doubled roughly every 25 years (except that migration to the New World slowed during the French & … Continue reading
British Ignobility
Introduction British colonial administrators were almost always members of the nobility — the peers and landed gentry. But there were two groups of nobles: high nobles and everyone else. In North America, the colonial administrators were mostly minor nobility. Very few “high born” … Continue reading
Searching History 