Dr. Troy Kickler, director of the N.C. History Project, discusses key themes from The Federalist Papers. Kickler offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 503).
North Carolina: Early to the revolution
In early 1776, battle lines in NC had already been drawn between loyalists to the British crown and American patriots. At the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge, these lines burst into the open.