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Letter from the General Congress at Philadelphia (describes American grievances), 5th September 1774 (litho)

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GLC695994
Image title
Letter from the General Congress at Philadelphia (describes American grievances), 5th September 1774 (litho)
Artist
American School, (18th century) / American
Location
Gilder Lehrman Collection, New York, USA
Medium
lithograph
Date
1774 AD (C18th AD)
Dimensions
45.4x30.2 cms
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A long broadside, printed in four columns and addressed to the people of Great Britain. The broadside says: "Know then, that we consider, and do insist that we are, and ought to be, free as our fellow subjects in Britain, and that no power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent." Mentions numerous rights, including trial by jury. Someone has circled misspellings (or variations?) in pencil. (Sothebys suggested that this broadside was printed in Bristol, England. Apparently unrecorded.) Leaders of the patriot cause repeatedly argued that imperial policies would literally make the colonists slaves of the British. As the historian Bernard Bailyn has demonstrated, the colonists' talk of being enslaved was not hyperbole or lurid rhetoric; it expressed a genuine fear of being subjected to "the arbitrary will and pleasure of another."

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© Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History / Bridgeman Images
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18th century / USA / North America / America (continent) / print / poster / colony / colonial period / broadside / revolutionary war / causes / continental congress / philadelphia / american history / liberty / sheet / the war of independence / american revolution / united states of america / usa / Engraving / Mzengraving

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