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Community and Authority in the Eighteenth-Century South: Tidewater, Southside and Backcountry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

Gwenda Morgan
Affiliation:
Lecturer in American History at Sunderland Polytechnic, Chester Road, Sunderland.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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