Enemies to Their Country by Nicholas W. Gentile - 9781625348951

University of Massachusetts Press

Enemies to Their CountryThe Marblehead Addressers and Consensus in the American Revolution\nAuthor(s): Nicholas W. Gentile\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Massachusetts Press, United States\nImprint: University of Massachusetts Press\nISBN-13: 9781625348951, 978-1625348951\nSynopsis\nComplicating the American Revolution through a microhistory of one Massachusetts town \n In 1774, a group of elite men in the town of Marblehead, Massachusetts, just outside Salem, wrote an address to the royal governor thanking him for his service to the colony, even as town residents began demanding independence from Great Britain. Town meeting records reveal how the town's patriot majority pressured the signers to withdraw their support for the governor and demanded public recantations and issued damning reports, even forcing some of the signers into exile. \n Enemies to Their Country tells the story of the year following the Address, chronicling the town's struggle to achieve consensus e.