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- Title
Leadership, Loyalty, and Sovereignty in the Revolutionary American Southwest: The State of Franklin as a Test Case.
- Authors
RAY, KRISTOFER
- Abstract
The article explores the State of Franklin, an independent government formed by a group of frontier folk with significant commercial interest in North Carolina in the 1780s. Topics discussed include concerns over the establishment of the state of Franklin, factors that contributed to the rise and fall of Franklin and two critically important issues that arise with the establishment of the state of Franklin during the Republic's Revolutionary era.
- Subjects
FRANKLIN (N.C.); NORTH Carolina state history, 1775-1865; STATEHOOD (American politics); NORTH Carolina state politics &; government, 1775-1865; AMERICAN Revolutionary War, 1775-1783
- Publication
North Carolina Historical Review, 2015, Vol 92, Issue 2, p123
- ISSN
0029-2494
- Publication type
Article