This book examines the connections between the commercial fishing
industry in colonial America and the American Revolution,
Christopher P. Magra places the origins and progress of this
formative event in a wider Atlantic context. The Fisherman's Cause
utilizes extensive research from archives in the United States,
Canada, and the UK in order to take this Atlantic approach. Dried,
salted cod represented the most lucrative export in New England.
The fishing industry connected colonial producers to transatlantic
markets in the Iberian Peninsula and the West Indies. Parliament's
coercive regulation of this branch of colonial maritime commerce
contributed to colonists' willingness to engage in a variety of
revolutionary activities. Colonists then used the sea to resist
British authority. Fish merchants converted transatlantic trade
routes into military supply lines, and they transformed fishing
vessels into warships. Fishermen armed and manned the first
American Navy, served in the first coast guard units, and fought on
privateers. These maritime activities helped secure American
independence.
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