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https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/files/original/footsoldiers_dffcc028c4.tif
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<em>Soldiers in Uniform</em>
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English
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American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning
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African Americans were faced with conflicting loyalties during the Revolutionary War, with some joining the British side in hopes of escaping from slavery, while many others remained loyal to the Patriot cause. While it's difficult to know the exact numbers, an army report in 1778 listed 755 African Americans serving in the Continental Army; the inclusion of those serving in state and local militias and in non-combat roles would undoubtedly make the total number of black Patriots much higher.
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Jean Baptiste Antoine de Verger
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Jean Baptiste Antoine de Verger, <em>American Foot Soldiers, Yorktown Campaign</em>, watercolor, 1781, Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library, http://dl.lib.brown.edu/catalog/catalog.php?verb=render&id=1228246188843750&colid=13. <br />
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1781
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Revolution and New Nation (1751-1815)
African-American Soldiers
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https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/files/original/excise-man_bc36a49f73.tif
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The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring & Feathering
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English
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This 1774 British print, titled "The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring and Feathering," depicts the attack of a Patriot crowd on Boston Commissioner of Customs John Malcolm. Tarring and feathering was a ritual of humiliation and public warning that stopped just short of serious injury. Victims included British officials such as Malcolm and local merchants who violated non-importation boycotts of British goods. In this print, several Patriots (including a leather-aproned artisan) attacked Malcom under Boston's Liberty Tree (a symbol of resistance to British rule), while the Boston Tea Party occurred in the background. (In fact, the attack on Malcolm took place four weeks after the Tea Party.)
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Philip Dawe(?)
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Philip Dawe(?), "The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring and Feathering," mezzotint, 1774. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress; from American Social History Project, <em>Who Built America? Working People and the Nation's History</em> (vol. 1), 194.
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1774
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Revolution and New Nation (1751-1815)
Boston Tea Party
Boycotts
Patriots
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<p>In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense. . . .
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<p>I have heard it asserted by some, that as America has flourished under her former connection with Great-Britain, the same connection is necessary towards her future happiness, and will always have the same effect. Nothing can be more fallacious than this kind of argument. We may as well assert that because a child has thrived upon milk, that is never to have meat, or that the first twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty. But even this is admitting more than is true; for I answer. . . that America would have flourished as much, and probably much more, had no European power taken any notice of her. The commerce by which she hath enriched herself are the necessaries of life, and will always have a market while eating is the custom of Europe.</p>
<p>But she has protected us, say some. . . . We have boasted the protection of Great Britain, without considering, that her motive was interest not attachment. . . . This new World hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. . . . As Europe is our market for trade, we ought to form no partial connection with any part of it. It is the true interest of America to steer clear of European contentions, which she never can do, while, by her dependence on Britain, she is made the make-weight in the scale of British politics.</p>
<p>Europe is too thickly planted with Kingdoms to be long at peace, and whenever a war breaks out between England and any foreign power, the trade of America goes to ruin, because of her connection with Britain. . . . There is something absurd, in supposing a Continent to be perpetually governed by an island. . . .</p>
<p>No man was a warmer wisher for a reconciliation than myself, before the fatal nineteenth of April, 1775 [the day of the battles of Lexington and Concord], but the moment the event of that day was made known, I rejected the hardened, sullen-tempered Pharaoh of England for ever; and disdain the wretch, that with the pretended title of FATHER OF HIS PEOPLE can unfeelingly hear of their slaughter, and composedly sleep with their blood upon his soul. . . .</p>
<p>Where, say some, is the king of America? I'll tell you, Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the royal brute of Great Britain.... So far as we approve of monarchy. . . in America the law is king. . . .</p>
<p>A government of our own is our natural right. . . . Ye that oppose independence now, ye know not what ye do: ye are opening the door to eternal tyranny. . . . There are thousands and tens of thousands, who would think it glorious to expel from the Continent, that barbarous and hellish power, which hath stirred up the Indians and the Negroes to destroy us. . . .</p>
<p>O! ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose not only the tyranny but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the Globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.</p>
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<em>Common Sense</em> (Excerpt)
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English
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In these excerpts from the famous pamphlet <em>Common Sense</em>, Thomas Paine makes the case for independence from Britain. The alleged benefits of British rule, Paine asserts, are actually liabilities; he cites unfair trade policies and American entanglement in Britain's foreign wars. Published anonymously on January 10, 1776, the work spread quickly through the colonies (120,000 were said to have been distributed within three months), and went on to become one of the most famous documents of the American Revolution.
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Thomas Paine
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Thomas Paine, <em>Common Sense</em> (Philadelphia: W & T Bradford, 1776); from The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, http://gilderlehrman.pastperfect-online.com/33267cgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=407F8541-C845-4A05-B1CD-201253887840;type=301
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1776
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Revolution and New Nation (1751-1815)
Patriots
Revolutionary War
Thomas Paine
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<p>On the commencement of actual war, the Women of America manifested a firm resolution to contribute as much as could depend on them, to the deliverance of their country. Animated by the purest patriotism, they are sensible of sorrow at this day, in not offering more than barren wishes for the success of so glorious a Revolution. They aspire to render themselves more really useful; and this sentiment is universal from the north to the south of the Thirteen United States. Our ambition is kindled by the same of those heroines of antiquity, who have rendered their sex illustrious, and have proved to the universe, that, if the weakness of our Constitution, if opinion and manners did not forbid us to march to glory by the same paths as the Men, we should at least equal, and sometimes surpass them in our love for the public good. I glory in all that which my sex has done great and commendable. I call to mind with enthusiasm and with admiration, all those acts of courage, of constancy and patriotism, which history has transmitted to us: The people favoured by Heaven, preserved from destruction by the virtues, the zeal and the resolution of Deborah, of Judith, of Esther! The fortitude of the mother of the Massachabees, in giving up her sons to die before her eyes: Rome saved from the fury of a victorious enemy by the efforts of Volumnia, and other Roman Ladies: So many famous sieges where the Women have been seen forgeting the weakness of their sex, building new walls, digging trenches with their feeble hands, furnishing arms to their defenders, they themselves darting the missile weapons on the enemy, resigning the ornaments of their apparel, and their fortune, to fill the public treasury, and to hasten the deliverance of their country . . .</p>
<p>. . . Shall we hesitate to wear a cloathing more simple; hair dressed less elegant, while at the price of this small privation, we shall deserve your benedictions. Who, amongst us, will not renounce with the highest pleasure, those vain ornaments, when-she shall consider that the valiant defenders of America will be able to draw some advantage from the money which she may have laid out in these; that they will be better defended from the rigours of the seasons, that after their painful toils . . . This is the offering of the Ladies. The time is arrived to display the same sentiments which animated us at the beginning of the Revolution, when we renounced the use of teas, however agreeable to our taste, rather than receive them from our persecutors . . . when our republican and laborious hands spun the flax, prepared the linen intended for the use of our soldiers; when exiles and fugitives we supported with courage all the evils which are the concomitants of war. . . .</p>
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"An American Woman" Lends her Support to the Revolutionary War
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English
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Esther Reed launched the creation of the Ladies' Association of Philadelphia with the publication of a broadside "Sentiments of an American Woman." Keenly aware of the limited scope of earlier women's efforts and referring to women as "brave Americans," Reed urged women to "render themselves more really useful" to the Revolution. In an addendum to the letter, Reed and Sarah Franklin Bache offered a specific plan for how women could achieve this goal by collecting money to be sent to the wives of the Governor or General Washington.
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Esther Reed
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<em>Sentiments of an American Woman</em>, (Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 1780), Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/wasm/wasmrestricted/amrev/doc6.htm?
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1780 (Circa)
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Revolution and New Nation (1751-1815)
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Gender and Sexuality
Patriots
Revolutionary War
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https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/files/original/elladaptedabigail_7165f9d0ed.pdf
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Abigail Adams Reminds John Adams to "Remember the Ladies" (with text supports)
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In this famous letter, Abigail Adams, already planning for the war's successful conclusion, admonishes her husband John Adams to consider inequality between men and women when developing laws for a newly independent nation.
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Abigail Adams
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Abigail Adams, "Abigail Adams to John Adams, March 31, 1776," letter, in <em>Adams Family Correspondence</em>, eds. L.H. Butterfield et al. (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963), vol 1: 369-371; from Massachusetts Historical Society, <em>Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive</em>, http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams/.
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1776
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Revolution and New Nation (1751-1815)
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Gender and Sexuality
Patriots
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