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Forced founders

Indians, debtors, slaves, and the making of the American Revolution in Virginia

by Woody Holton

1999 231 pages eng

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 joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebel…

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