The book I read was called Breaking Loose Together and was written by Marjoleine Kars. It was published in 2002 by the University of North Carolina Press. Breaking Loose Together is a nonfiction historical book. The book is comprised of two hundred and eighty-four pages. It is a nonfiction and historical book because it gathers quotes, accounts, journal entries, and news articles from everyone that was in the western region of a Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina. Its main argument is to tell the history of western North Carolina in the colonial period and “focused on the experience of ordinary people”1 and how they were treated, how they tried to get back at the government by protesting, legal means, and lastly a battle. To summarize the book
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It fits because it in many ways what happened in the book and in early North Carolina is similar to other colonies and what they dealt with. Most of the colonies had colonist similar to regulators not liking how they were treated and went against the government and were labeled as ‘threats’. So the oppressed colonists felt threatened and took measures against their oppressors, usually wealthy land owners, tax collectors, or the governor. They would protest against acts, or rent for land owners they lived on. They would go against officials by going through courts, protests, and riot if needed. All the colonies would try and some would even try to fight the government; like the Regulators they would try to do everything to stop acts and taxes from being placed on them. They would first face the government by legal suits but when that would not work they rioted. When the government said stop rioting, the colonist followed but that made the people fight for their beliefs. The Regulators may have lost but that added to the bonfire of the colony’s hatred of the British and their style of rule on the colonies, especially in the years leading to the Revolutionary War. They then stated with the rest of the states and agreed to start the war for independence. This is how the regulators tried to get taxes lowered and acts removed helped play a small role in the revolution. But in reality it was for nothing because after the war “much of the same men and the same social status remained in place” so many rich land owners still had a lot of say in North
It fits because it in many ways what happened in the book and in early North Carolina is similar to other colonies and what they dealt with. Most of the colonies had colonist similar to regulators not liking how they were treated and went against the government and were labeled as ‘threats’. So the oppressed colonists felt threatened and took measures against their oppressors, usually wealthy land owners, tax collectors, or the governor. They would protest against acts, or rent for land owners they lived on. They would go against officials by going through courts, protests, and riot if needed. All the colonies would try and some would even try to fight the government; like the Regulators they would try to do everything to stop acts and taxes from being placed on them. They would first face the government by legal suits but when that would not work they rioted. When the government said stop rioting, the colonist followed but that made the people fight for their beliefs. The Regulators may have lost but that added to the bonfire of the colony’s hatred of the British and their style of rule on the colonies, especially in the years leading to the Revolutionary War. They then stated with the rest of the states and agreed to start the war for independence. This is how the regulators tried to get taxes lowered and acts removed helped play a small role in the revolution. But in reality it was for nothing because after the war “much of the same men and the same social status remained in place” so many rich land owners still had a lot of say in North