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In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.

Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.

it is a fact that eleven million Africans were forcibly carried abroad, more than nine million of them to the Americas.

many of these excellent young people could not, as a general rule, either read or write, as these activities are understood in our best universities.

Instantly available without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

Even toward the middle of the century, there were occasions when the London mailbag for Edinburgh was found to contain only a single letter.

At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.

They will cast your sovereignty in your face. No body will be argued into slavery.6

Rhode Island, a colony that the mainstream Puritans denounced as "a cesspool of vile heresies and irreligion,