[Jacquerie]

This work is from Boorstin's The Americans: The Colonial Experience.

For Pharmboy, your colonial history pinglist if you please

[Sacajaweau]

Notice that tobacco was “cash” back then. Now, it’s our state’s (NY) cash cow.

[Billthedrill]

Interesting article, and thanks for posting. A side note - this is one of the reasons that Virginia became attractive to Cavalier emigrants - the losing side in the English Civil Wars (by tradition some of Montrose’s people to begin with, others later). It helps explain both Virginia’s aristocratic antecedents and the reason they felt less inclined than others toward loyalty to Parliament. In many American minds Parliament meant Pitt and Burke, but in their family histories Parliament meant Cromwell.

[thecodont]

Thank you for posting this.

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Tyler warned Jefferson “that good and able Men had better govern than be governed, since ‘tis possible, indeed highly probable, that if the able and good withdraw themselves from Society, the venal and ignorant will succeed.”
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Worthy of a sig line.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks for posting, Jacquerie. I’ve had Boorstin’s “The Americans: The Colonial Experience” sitting on my bookshelf for years and have never gotten around to reading it. Now could be the time.