Название: Redemption from Tyranny: Herman Husband's American Revolution
Автор: Bruce E. Stewart
Издательство: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813943701
Год: 2020
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 248
Размер: 4,5 МБ
Язык: Английский
For many common people, the American Revolution offered an opportunity to radically reimagine the wealth and power structures in the nascent United States. Yet in the eyes of working-class activists, the U.S. Constitution favored the interests of a corrupt elite and betrayed the lofty principles of the Declaration of Independence. The discontent of these ordinary revolutionaries sparked a series of protest movements throughout the country during the 1780s and 1790s.