Revolution 250 Podcast
The North Carolina Regulators and an Empire losing control with Abby Chandler
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.
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.