A Very Mutinous People Quotes

“Political independence was crucially linked to economic independence. The freedom to have a voice in one’s own governance must be protected by as wide a distribution of land as possible and thus the widest franchise the settlers could conceive.”
― Noeleen McIlvenna, A Very Mutinous People: The Struggle for North Carolina, 1660-1713

“North Carolina’s first permanent transatlantic inhabitants sought to escape the reach of their masters and governors. They came because of the swamp, not despite it.”
― Noeleen McIlvenna, A Very Mutinous People: The Struggle for North Carolina, 1660-1713