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Whigs and Hunters - The Origin of the Black Act (Paperback)
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Whigs and Hunters - The Origin of the Black Act (Paperback)
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With Whigs and Hunters, the author of The Making of the English
Working Class, E. P. Thompson plunged into the murky waters of the
early eighteenth century to chart the violently conflicting
currents that boiled beneath the apparent calm of the time. The
subject is the Black Act, a law of unprecedented savagery passed by
Parliament in 1723 to deal with 'wicked and evil-disposed men going
armed in disguise'. These men were pillaging the royal forest of
deer, conducting a running battle against the forest officers with
blackmail, threats and violence. These 'Blacks', however, were men
of some substance; their protest (for such it was) took issue with
the equally wholsesale plunder of the forest by Whig nominees to
the forest offices. And Robert Walpole, still consolidating his
power, took an active part in the prosecution of the 'Blacks'. The
episode is laden with political and social implications, affording
us glimpses of considerable popular discontent, political
chicanery, judicial inequity, corrupt ambition and crime.
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