Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
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"Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies" by John Dickinson is a series of essays written between 1767 and 1768. Published under a pseudonym, these twelve letters united American colonists against British taxation by arguing that Parliament could regulate colonial trade but not raise revenue from the colonies. The essays challenged prevailing British views on sovereignty and became the most influential colonial writing until Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," shaping revolutionary thinking while advocating for peaceful resistance within the British constitutional system. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Early works to 1800 United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes Finance -- Great Britain -- Colonies
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Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies - 1 online resource : multiple file formats
Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_from_a_Farmer_in_Pennsylvania Release date is 2014-10-14
Produced by David Edwards, Julia Neufeld and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This
file was produced from images generously made available
by The Internet Archive) Produced by David Edwards, Julia Neufeld and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This
file was produced from images generously made available
by The Internet Archive)
"Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies" by John Dickinson is a series of essays written between 1767 and 1768. Published under a pseudonym, these twelve letters united American colonists against British taxation by arguing that Parliament could regulate colonial trade but not raise revenue from the colonies. The essays challenged prevailing British views on sovereignty and became the most influential colonial writing until Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," shaping revolutionary thinking while advocating for peaceful resistance within the British constitutional system. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Early works to 1800 United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes Finance -- Great Britain -- Colonies
E201