The American Revolution as Class and Economic Struggle

[Under construction]

To an extent that has been under appreciated, the American Revolution involved class and economic considerations.   For example the Regulator Movement of North Carolina.    Quote about a petition drawn up by the Regulators of Anson County, NC:

"in violation of the law restricting the amount of land that might be granted to each person to six hundred and forty acres, much of the most fertile territory in the province had been distributed in large tracts to wealthy landlords. In consequence "great numbers of poor people are necessitated to toil in the cultivation of the bad Lands whereon they hardly can subsist." It was these poor people, "thereby deprived of His Majesties liberality and Bounty," "  http://www.web-books.com/Classics/ON/B0/B866/SouthwestC13.html