Revolution 250 Podcast

The North Carolina Regulators and an Empire losing control with Abby Chandler

Abby Chandler Season 3 Episode 26

Did the American Revolution begin with the North Carolina Regulators?  Abby Chandler joins us to talk about this North Carolina political movement and some of the characters involved--Governor William Tryon, who was between the proverbial rock and hard place, the Legislature which ran afoul of back-country farmers and speculators,  "Regulators" like Herman Husband, and ambitious men on the make like Edmund Fanning.  Abby Chandler is writing a book about these 1760s discontents as the British Empire tried to cohere.    

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