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Forced founders : Indians, debtors, slaves, and the making of the American Revolution in Virginia

A reinterpretation of the American Revolution. Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellion against their own rule.
Print Book, English, 1999
Univ. of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1999