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Forced Founders - Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia (Paperback, New edition)
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Forced Founders - Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
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In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known
events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas
Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined
their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from
Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions
against their own rule. The Virginia gentry's efforts to shape
London's imperial policy were thwarted by British merchants and by
a coalition of Indian nations. In 1774, elite Virginians suspended
trade with Britain in order to pressure Parliament and, at the same
time, to save restive Virginia debtors from a terrible recession.
The boycott and the growing imperial conflict led to rebellions by
enslaved Virginians, Indians, and tobacco farmers. By the spring of
1776 the gentry believed the only way to regain control of the
common people was to take Virginia out of the British Empire.
Forced Founders uses the new social history to shed light on a
classic political question: why did the owners of vast plantations,
viewed by many of their contemporaries as aristocrats, start a
revolution? As Holton's fast-paced narrative unfolds, the old story
of patriot versus loyalist becomes decidedly more complex.
|Challenging traditional interpretations of the American
Revolution, Woody Holton argues that the Virginia gentry were
forced to rebel against Britain because of pressures exerted by
Indians, farmers, and slaves.
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