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Farming Dissenters: The Regulator Movement in Piedmont North Carolina. By Carole Watterson Troxler. (Raleigh: Office of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 2011. Pp. [xvi], 221. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 978-0-86526-350-5.)
Occasionally a historian takes up the task of compiling the wide range of work on a particular topic into one volume. In Farming Dissenters: The Regulator Movement in Piedmont North Carolina, Carole Watterson Troxler does just that, creating the most comprehensive volume on the Regulator movement in North Carolina, which spanned from the 1760s to its violent end at the battle of Alamance in 1771.
Troxler argues that the issues causing the Regulator movement centered on the acquisition of land in the North Carolina backcountry. Land was cheap but often difficult and...