Eight years before the Boston Tea Party and ten years before
Lexington and Concord, the first shots in the American Revolution
were fired in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1765. Known as the
Smith Rebellion, this crucial turning point in American history set
the stage for modern American politics.
In this history, author Karen Ramsburg tells the enlightening
story of this uprising on the Pennsylvania frontier and
definitively shows how it laid the groundwork for the political
maneuverings of today. Ramsburg dips back into history and reveals
how a simple act of self-defense became the spark that created our
nation and developed the first battle in a long, continuous class
war still ongoing today.
Fearful that illegal trade goods, such as tomahawks, scalping
knives, and gun powder, were being transported to Fort Pitt to
rearm the Indians and renew Pontiac's War against the frontiersmen,
Justice William Smith and his cousin James Smith, a.k.a. Black Boy
Jimmy, believed they had a right to stop it. The ensuing rebellion
led to a definition of government as a contract between all men to
reject some of their natural rights in favor of a framework that
would secure each man's rights to life, liberty, and property.
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