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Peyton Randolph and Revolutionary Virginia
Author | : Robert M. Randolph |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2019-11-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476638624 |
In 1763, King George III's government adopted a secret policy to reduce the American colonies to "due subordinance" and exploit them. This brought on the American Revolution. In Virginia, there was virtually unanimous agreement that Britain's actions violated Virginia's constitutional rights. Yet Virginians were deeply divided as to a remedy. Peyton Randolph, Speaker of the House of Burgesses 1766-1775 (and chairman of the First and Second Continental Congresses), worked to unify the colony, keeping the conservatives from moving too slowly and the radicals from moving too swiftly. Virginia was thus the only major colony to enter the Revolution united. Randolph was a masterful politician who produced majorities for critical votes leading to revolution.
John Randolph
Author | : Henry Adams |
Publisher | : M.E. Sharpe |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1995-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780765633767 |
America's foremost political eccentric of the early national era, the Virginian John Randolph of Roanoke (1773-1833), referred to John and John Quincy Adams as the American House of Stuart and opposed virtually all their political deeds and principles. Henry Adams, perhaps the most eccentric as well as brilliant American historian of the nineteenth century, avenged his grandfather and great-grandfather with this incisively negative biography. Its relative brevity makes it an ideal introduction to Henry Adams's thinking and writing about American history. Furthermore, however unbalanced and therefore unfair to its subject, Adams's Randolph leaves a compelling picture of a states' rights idealist who became, before he died, the prophet of the southern defense of slavery. As greatly and deeply as Henry Adams disliked John Randolph of Roanoke, he had, almost in spite of himself, a deep bond of sympathy. Both were morally and culturally cut off from the booster-dominated, progressive, materialistic mainstream of United States culture. American aristocrats by birth, education, and wealth, both were insiders turned outsiders. --From the Introduction Professor Robert McColley introduces the volume and includes several of Randolph's speeches and letters not in the original edition.
Gloucestershire Notes and Queries
Author | : Beaver Henry Blacker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Gloucestershire (England) |
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Virginia and Virginians
Author | : Robert Alonzo Brock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Virginia |
ISBN | : |
Gloucestershire Notes and Queries
Author | : William Phillimore Watts Phillimore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 882 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Gloucestershire (England) |
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