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1.From Memoir To Movie by Bloom, Sally Causey Tar Heel Junior Historian Vol. 63 Issue 2, Spring 2024
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A film, "Friends in Liberty" produced in 2009 by the North Carolina Museum of History is based on Hugh McDonald's 18 century memoir recording early events of the American Revolution in North Carolina. McDonald was a teenager when he joined the conflict. McDonald's memoir describes the Battle of Moores Creek, notes a parade on July 4, 1777 in Philadelphia and a memorable experience where McDonald and his platoon of 16 teenagers were brought before George Washington and honored after have broken through lines four times during the Battle of Germantown.
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44041
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It is approximated that nearly 200,000 people lived in North Carolina in 1765. Subsistence living with some necessities dependent on mercantile trade generally shaped the life of most of the region's inhabitants.
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44005
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During the colonial period and into the Revolution, British agents were deployed among the native people to build trust and influence. Devastation after the Cherokee War of 1776, however, prompted many to stay out of the Revolutionary War conflict.
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44032
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After fighting to win independence from Great Britain with its centralized government and unpopular taxation, North Carolina was in fact very reluctant to participate in the Constitutional Convention but eventually did so, initially electing Richard Caswell, William R. Davie, Willie Jones, Alexander Martin and Richard Dobbs Speight as representatives.
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