Description When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible.
In this pathbreaking book, Robert Parkinson argues that to unify the patriot side, political and communications leaders linked British tyranny to colonial prejudices, stereotypes, and fears about insurrectionary slaves and viole.
Few on either side of the Atlantic expected thirteen colonies to stick together in a war against their cultural cousins.
Description When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible