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The Brethren - A Story of Faith and Conspiracy in Revolutionary America (Hardcover) Loot Price: R680
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The Brethren - A Story of Faith and Conspiracy in Revolutionary America (Hardcover): Brendan McConville

The Brethren - A Story of Faith and Conspiracy in Revolutionary America (Hardcover)

Brendan McConville

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The dramatic account of a Revolutionary-era conspiracy in which a band of farmers opposed to military conscription and fearful of religious persecution plotted to kill the governor of North Carolina. Less than a year into the American Revolution, a group of North Carolina farmers hatched a plot to assassinate the colony's leading patriots, including the governor. The scheme became known as the Gourd Patch or Lewellen Conspiracy. The men called themselves the Brethren. The Brethren opposed patriot leaders' demand for militia volunteers and worried that "enlightened" deist principles would be enshrined in the state constitution, displacing their Protestant faith. The patriots' attempts to ally with Catholic France only exacerbated the Brethren's fears of looming heresy. Brendan McConville follows the Brethren as they draw up plans for violent action. After patriot militiamen threatened to arrest the Brethren as British sympathizers in the summer of 1777, the group tried to spread false rumors of a slave insurrection in hopes of winning loyalist support. But a disaffected insider denounced the movement to the authorities, and many members were put on trial. Drawing on contemporary depositions and legal petitions, McConville gives voice to the conspirators' motivations, which make clear that the Brethren did not back the Crown but saw the patriots as a grave threat to their religion. Part of a broader Southern movement of conscription resistance, the conspiracy compels us to appreciate the full complexity of public opinion surrounding the Revolution. Many colonists were neither loyalists nor patriots and came to see the Revolutionary government as coercive. The Brethren tells the dramatic story of ordinary people who came to fear that their Revolutionary leaders were trying to undermine religious freedom and individual liberty-the very causes now ascribed to the Founding generation.

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Imprint: Harvard University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: September 2021
Authors: Brendan McConville
Dimensions: 210 x 140 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 978-0-674-24916-5
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Local history
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Nationalism
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > General
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Local history
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion
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LSN: 0-674-24916-X
Barcode: 9780674249165

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