{"id":1058,"date":"2009-12-09T17:00:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T23:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/?page_id=1058"},"modified":"2009-12-09T17:01:06","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T23:01:06","slug":"rough-and-tumble-on-the-southern-frontier","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/recreation\/colonial-period-1607-1763\/rough-and-tumble-on-the-southern-frontier\/","title":{"rendered":"Rough and Tumble on the Southern Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ROUGH AND TUMBLE FIGHTING CONTESTS ON THE FRONTIER IN EARLY NORTH CAROLINA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 1746, four deaths prompted the governor of North Carolina to ask for legislation against \u2018the barbarous and inhuman manner of boxing which so much prevails among the lower sort of people.\u2019\u00a0 The colonial assembly responded by making it a felony \u2018to cut out the Tongue or pull out the eyes of the King&#8217;s Liege People.\u2019\u00a0 Five years later the assembly added slitting, biting, and cutting off noses to the list of offenses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cited by Gorn from Tom Parramore, &#8220;Gouging in Early North Carolina,&#8221; NORTH CAROLINA FOLKLORE JOURNAL, 22 (1974)<\/p>\n<p>As quoted in:<\/p>\n<p>Elliott J. Gorn, &#8220;Gouge and Bite, Pull Hair and Scratch&#8221; The Social Significance of Fighting in the Southern Backcountry.\u201d JOURNAL OF MANLY ARTS [April, 2001]; this monograph by Mr. Gorn first appeared in THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, Vol. 90, No. 1 (Feb., 1985): 18-43.\u00a0 Copyright by The American Historical Association.\u00a0 Available for reading online at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ejmas.com\/jmanly\/articles\/2001\/jmanlyart_gorn_0401.htm\">http:\/\/ejmas.com\/jmanly\/articles\/2001\/jmanlyart_gorn_0401.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROUGH AND TUMBLE FIGHTING CONTESTS ON THE FRONTIER IN EARLY NORTH CAROLINA \u201cIn 1746, four deaths prompted the governor of North Carolina to ask for legislation against \u2018the barbarous and inhuman manner of boxing which so much prevails among the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/recreation\/colonial-period-1607-1763\/rough-and-tumble-on-the-southern-frontier\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":1055,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1058","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PGnLa-h4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1058\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/nash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}