Provides the book's explicit breadth claim; the exact count requires independent corroboration for publication.
The geographic comparison includes western Pennsylvania, Carlisle, Hagerstown, and other frontier districts.
Slaughter traces opposition across at least twenty trans-Appalachian counties in four states and the Northwest Territory, with locally different mixes of ritual protest, class conflict, nonpayment, and violence.
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Paraphrase checked against searchable text and rendered PDF sheets 213–214 on 2026-08-27. 2026-09-16: reader fields use printed pp. 206–207; internal PDF sheets 213–214 retained for provenance.
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Slaughter traces opposition across at least twenty trans-Appalachian counties in four states and the Northwest Territory, with locally different mixes of ritual protest, class conflict, nonpayment, and violence.
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Reader location: printed pp. 206–207, Chapter 13
Internal PDF provenance: sheets 213–214
The geographic comparison includes western Pennsylvania, Carlisle, Hagerstown, and other frontier districts.
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Provides the book's explicit breadth claim; the exact count requires independent corroboration for publication.
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Paraphrase checked against searchable text and rendered PDF sheets 213–214 on 2026-08-27.