Marjoleine Kars, Ph.D.
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Marjoleine Kars is a scholar of early America and the early modern Atlantic World. A native of the Netherlands, she is Professor Emerita of History at UMBC and a Senior Scholar at MIT. She is the author of Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina (Chapel Hill, 2002) and more recently, Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast (New York, 2020) about a massive slave rebellion in Dutch Berbice in 1763-1764, which won a number of prizes. She lives in Cambridge, MA.
May 5, 2025
Episode 14: The Corruption
Months after the Boston Massacre, British Americans calling themselves "Regulators" launch a rebellion in western North Carolina that threatens to engulf the colony in revolution and civil war.