Providing readers with the unusual opportunity to enter into the
extraordinary mind of a patriot in the period immediately preceding
the Revolution, the Portrait of a Patriot series presents the major
papers of the Boston lawyer and patriot penman Josiah Quincy Jr.
(1744-1775). In this, the third of five volumes, we meet Quincy as
a rising member of the Massachusetts bar and a member of the Boston
Committee of Correspondence, making a tour of the Southern colonies
to assess the depth of commitment to the patriot cause there. While
cautious of the political leanings of his hosts, Quincy was clearly
dazzled by the opulence and sophistication of
late-eighteenth-century Charleston society. As he traveled
northward, he continued to record candid observations on Southern
manners, womenfolk, and the institution of slavery in his journal,
thus creating a unique portrait of American society on the eve of
the American Revolution.
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