British Supporters of the American Revolution, 1775-1783: The Role of the 'middling-level' ActivistsBoydell Press, 2004 - 181 sivua America's Declaration of Independence, while endeavouring to justify a break with Great Britain, simultaneously proclaimed that the colonists had not been `wanting in attention to our British brethren', but that they had `been deaf to the voice of justice and consanguinity'. This overstatement has since been modified in comprehensive histories of the American Revolution. Gradually a more balanced portrait of British attitudes towards the conflict has emerged. In particular, studies of pro-American Britons have exemplified this fact by concentrating on only a small upper-class minority. In contrast, this work focuses on five unrenowned men of Britain's `middling orders'. These individuals actively endeavoured to aid the American cause. Their efforts, often unlawful, brought them into contact with Benjamin Franklin, for whom they befriended rebel seamen confined in British gaols. Their stories - rendered here - open up new areas for study of the American War on this middling segment of Britain's social structure. |
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proAmerican London merchant 22 | 22 |
merchant of Coleman Street London | 23 |
Portsmouths patron of American liberty | 51 |
Irish friend of American freedom | 83 |
evangelist and humanitarian | 107 |
apothecary and friend to American liberty | 133 |
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ADM/M Admiralty American captives American commissioners American prisoners American rebels American Revolution apothecary April assistance Benjamin Franklin Britain Britons cartel Chronicle Church Clark Cohen Coleman Street colonial Commission for Sick commissioners in Paris confinement Continental Congress Cork City County David Hartley Deacon December Defense of Thomas detainees Devon dissenter England English Radicals escape February Forton and Mill Forton Prison Franklin to William George Washington Gosport Griffith Williams Henry Laurens Hodgson to Benjamin Hurt Seamen inmates Ireland January John Journal July June Kinsale letter Livesey London merchant Lord March Memoir of Robert Mill Prison naval North Ministry October officers Papers of Benjamin Parish Plymouth Portsmouth Prelinger prisoner exchanges prisoner relief Prisoners of 1776 pro-American Quaker residence Reuben Harvey Reverend William Hazlitt Richard Robert Heath Rodborough Tabernacle Saurey Sick and Hurt Society spiritual Thomas Digges Thomas Wren Wales Wapping Whitefield William Hazlitt William Hodgson Wren's wrote Yankee Sailors York