In North Carolina, a powerful movement of white farmers was organized against wealthy and corrupt officials in the period from 1766 to 1771, exactly those years when, in the cities of the Northeast, agitation was growing against the British, crowding out class issues.
The Regulator Movement is interesting to me because it happened in North Carolina and I had never heard of it before.
I would like to learn more about what exactly the "Regulators" did to over throw the corrupt, wealthy people in North Carolina.
http://books.google.com/books?id=9-FtlblxbLgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=a+people%27s+history+of+the+united+states+by+howard+zinn&ei=1Rn8SoyTLZDUNMPSrd0O#v=onepage&q=&f=false
The quote was taken from Howard Zinn's "A People's History of The United States"
Cool! Looks good. :-)
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