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Primary Source 1: The Proclamation of the Earl of DunmorePrimary Source.
Primary Source 2: Phyllis Wheatley, “To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth”
http://slavenarrativeanthology.weebly.com/to-the-right-honourable-william-earl-of-dartmouth.html
Primary Source(s) 3: Letters Between Abigail and John Adams
https://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/165adams-rtl.html
Primary Source 4: A Petition For Freedom in Massachusetts, 1777
https://www.masshist.org/database/viewer.php?item_id=557&img_step=1&mode=transcript#page1
Secondary Source : Vincent Carretta, “Phyllis Wheatley An Eighteenth-Century Genius in Bondage
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/phillis-wheatley-an-eighteenth-century-genius-in-bondage
The American Revolution and “Powerless Groups”
It has been argued that the American Revolution produced no significant benefits for American women…native Americans, blacks…most property-less white males, or indentured servants. Do you agree with this assessment? After reading the primary sources in Unit 5, what is your opinion regarding who benefited from the American Revolution?
Here is a link to an interesting interview on Democracy Now that highlights a similar view of the American Revolution:The American Revolution and “Powerless Groups”
https://www.democracynow.org/2014/6/27/counter_revolution_of_1776_was_us
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