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- It is the first history of how Americans perceived the Reign of Terror, and reveals how significantly fears of French violence changed the United States. Ultimately, these fears inspired a stark opposition to the violence of slaveholding, provided material for dramatic attacks on southern slavery, and helped to spark the Civil War.
searchworks.stanford.edu/view/7945669The reign of terror in America : visions of violence from ...
Dec 12, 2019 · Without the Sons of Liberty, there would likely have never been an American Revolution, and without terror, the Sons of Liberty would not have been able to accomplish their astonishing feat of awakening a nation to its potential to win a long struggle for freedom from a much stronger, and more powerful, adversary.
- Jeffrey D. Simon
A first approach to the question of terror in the context of the American Revolution must take into account what constituted acceptable—“usual”—violence for ordinary people.
revolutionary terrorism in the united states has been derived entirely from foreign models, and american revolutionaires were unable to set aside the tactical liability of their humanitarianism.
Jul 15, 2021 · In this episode, Pulitzer Prize-winning University of Virginia historian Alan Taylor discusses why it is important to acknowledge the violence and terror that scarred the revolutionary years...
Jun 28, 2017 · British Empire specialist Holger Hoock takes an unvarnished look at the violent history of the American Revolution — a theme rarely examined in the heroic stories of the War of Independence.
Jul 26, 2017 · Accounts of torture, suffering, slaughter, and starvation fill the pages of Holger Hoock’s Scars of Independence: America’s Violent Birth. By writing “violence back into the story,” Hoock intentionally complicates the traditional narrative of America’s founding and questions the motives of the Revolutionaries, the British, and those ...
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The Reign of Terror in America traces the paths by which American fears of the French Revolution’s violence gave rise, over the course of two generations, to antislavery, antiwar, and public-education move-ments in the United States.
