What happens when the very people meant to uphold justice become the ones exploiting it?
In the 1760s, North Carolina farmers watched sheriffs pocket their tax payments, judges rule in favor of corrupt land speculators, and government officials literally steal their land, all while claiming to represent the Crown’s interests.
The latest Ben Franklin’s World podcast explores the North Carolina Regulator Movement with public historian Nathan Schultz, Site Manager at the Alamance Battleground State Historic Site in North Carolina.
Schultz explores why farmers in North Carolina’s Piedmont region organized against corrupt officials and land speculators in the 1760s.
He also discusses how those Regulators built their own democratic, agrarian resistance movement while still claiming loyalty to the British Crown and how the Regulator Movement culminated in a deadly confrontation at the Battle of Alamance in May 1771.
You can listen here.
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