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Peter Oliver's "Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion" - A Tory View (Paperback, 1 New Ed)
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Peter Oliver's "Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion" - A Tory View (Paperback, 1 New Ed)
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One difficulty in writing a balanced history of the American
Revolution arises in part from its success as a creator of our
nation and our nationalistic sentiment. Unlike the Civil War,
unlike the French Revolution, the American Revolution produced no
lingering social trauma in the United States-it is a historic event
widely applauded by Americans today as both necessary and
desirable. But one consequence of this happy unanimity is that the
chief losers of the War of Independence-the American Loyalists-have
fared badly at the hands of historians. This explains, in part, why
the account of the Revolution recorded by self-professed Loyalist
and Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, Peter
Oliver, has heretofore been so routinely overlooked. Oliver's
manuscript, entitled "The Origins & Progress of the American
Rebellion," written in 1781, challenges the motives of the founding
fathers, and depicts the revolution as passion, plotting, and
violence. His descriptions of the leaders of the patriot party, of
their program and motives, are unforgiving, bitter, and inevitably
partisan. But it records the impressions of one who had experienced
these events, knew most of the combatants intimately, and saw the
collapse of the society he had lived in. His history is a very
important contemporary account of the origins of the revolution in
Massachusetts, and is now presented here in it entirety for the
first time.
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