Notes for chapter 7, “The Hills Give Light to the Vales,” record conflicting testimony about numbers, guns, truce events and participants. Deliberate federal provocation is an interpretation. Oliver Miller's identity is corrected through the author's cited Hartman research, not newly verified here.
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Writ enforcement and two July confrontations at Bower Hill escalated opposition into armed conflict, with McFarlane's death, enslaved defenders and destruction of Neville's property central to the account.
Chapter 7, “The Hills Give Light to the Vales”
Chapter 7, “The Hills Give Light to the Vales”
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Writ enforcement and two July confrontations at Bower Hill escalated opposition into armed conflict, with McFarlane's death, enslaved defenders and destruction of Neville's property central to the account.
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Notes for chapter 7, “The Hills Give Light to the Vales,” record conflicting testimony about numbers, guns, truce events and participants. Deliberate federal provocation is an interpretation. Oliver Miller's identity is corrected through the author's cited Hartman research, not newly verified here.