An Independent People: The Way We Lived in North Carolina, 1770-1820

by Harry L. Watson, Sydney Nathans (Editor)

This series is based on the premise that the past can be most fully understood through the joint experience of reading history and visiting historic places. Each volume examines the social history of an era by weaving interpretation around dozens of historic sites and the lives of ordinary people who lived and worked nearby.

128 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1983

About the author

Harry L. Watson is the Atlanta Distinguished Professor of Southern Culture at the University of North Carolina. He is the author of Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America and An Independent People: The Way We Lived in North Carolina, 1770–1820. His coedited books include Southern Cultures: The Fifteenth Anniversary Reader and The American South in a Global World.