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Lädt ... The Brethren: A Story of Faith and Conspiracy in Revolutionary Americavon Brendan McConville
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Over the years, I've become more and more impressed with the impact of the "Wars of Religion" on American history, and how this gets glossed over in the "happy talk" version of America's creation myth. McConville, on the other hand, puts the reality that, for many Colonial Americans, religion was political ideology, as the foundation of his analysis. This is as he traces the convolutions of how a community of believers in North Carolina could turn against the British Crown, over a supposed "Papist" conspiracy (the Quebec Act), and then turn Loyalist again, over the "Patriot" leadership reaching out for a French alliance (the main well of "Papism"), and the rejection of conventional Protestant thought in favor of "heresy" (i.e. The Enlightenment). Further, McConville works very hard at not reading backwards in history assumptions in the prevalence of "American" identity, and the legitimacy of political authority, as being anything more than a continuous work in progress. I got a great deal out of this study, and if you've done your share of background reading, you'll at least have been given food for thought. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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 Llewellen 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. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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