Randell Jones: Terror in the Backcountry, 1771
Randell Jones Guest columnist After several years in the late 1760s of bitter discourse, protest and, eventually, riots against egregious mistreatment by appointed officials, the farmers on North Carolinaâs frontier continued to petition the royal governor and assembly for relief. These âRegulatorsâ called for a better regulation of government. The entrenched powers that be were put off by these backcountry ârabbleâ and passed the Johnston Riot Act, enabling the government to declare Regulators as outlaws and to confiscate property. Indeed, Royal Gov. Will...