Name: A Precarious Balance. Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715–1865
SKU: 64775326
Price: 127.34 EUR
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Author: Antwain K. Hunter
ISBN: 9781469689883

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A Precarious Balance. Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715–1865

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

The University of North Carolina Press

Author

Antwain K. Hunter

Year

2025

Pages

320

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.5x15.5x2.5 cm

ISBN13

9781469689883

A Precarious Balance. Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715–1865

Antwain K. Hunter (Author) · The University of North Carolina Press · Hardcover

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Synopsis "A Precarious Balance. Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715–1865"

Spanning the 1720s through the end of the Civil War, this book explores how free and enslaved Black North Carolinians accessed, possessed, and used firearms—both legal and otherwise—and how the state and white people responded. North Carolinians, whether free or enslaved, Black or white, had different stakes on the issue, all of which impacted the reality of Black people’s gun use. Antwain K. Hunter reveals that armed Black people used firearms for a wide range of purposes: They hunted to feed their families and communities, guarded property, protected crops, and defended maroon communities from outsiders. Further, they resisted the institution of slavery and used guns both against white people and within their own community. Competing views of Black people’s firearm use created social, political, and legal points of contention for different demographics within North Carolina and left the general assembly and white civilians struggling to harness Black people’s armed labor for white people’s benefit. A Precarious Balance challenges readers to rethink how they understand race and firearms in the American past.