![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A sobering argument that American independence was gained principally after Colonial leaders purposefully “weaponized” prejudices against African Americans and Native peoples.Īs Parkinson notes at the beginning, this book is a distillation and revision of his much longer book, The Common Cause (2016), and it features a “new introduction and conclusion and new material exploring all the myriad problems patriot leaders faced when they began the nearly impossible task of constructing a durable union in the 1770s.” Using rarely studied Colonial newspaper evidence, the author reveals how fear as much as idealism drove American colonists to independence. ![]()
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