greykit.essays — #revolution
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1776-12-23
[american-founding]
The American Crisis
Paine's thirteen wartime Crisis papers (and A Crisis Extraordinary) — "These are the times that try men's souls.
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1776-07-04
[american-founding]
The Declaration of Independence
The thirteen colonies' unanimous declaration dissolving allegiance to the British Crown.
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1776-01-10
[american-founding]
Common Sense
Paine's incendiary case for American independence and against monarchy and hereditary rule.
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1775-07-06
[american-founding]
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms
Congress's July 1775 declaration justifying armed resistance a year before independence — "resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.
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1775-03-23
[american-founding]
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
Henry's call to arm the Virginia militia against Britain, closing on the most quoted sentence of the Revolution.
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1774-10-14
[american-founding]
Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
The colonies' first united statement of grievances and of the rights they claimed as Englishmen, on the eve of the Revolution.
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1768-01-01
[american-founding]
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
Dickinson's twelve letters against the Townshend duties — the most influential colonial argument that Parliament could not tax the colonies, however the tax was disguised.