American Revolution Podcast

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Book Recommendation of the Week: Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, by Jon Meacham.

Online Recommendation of the Week: Ohio in the time of the Confederation: https://archive.org/details/ohiointimeofconf03hulb

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At the end of the Revolutionary war, people began to deal with the ideals of freedom and equality while maintaining slavery. Northern states mostly put slavery on a slow path to eventual abolition. Sothern States do not. In Massachusetts, several slaves sue under the argument that the Constitutions claims that all men are born free and equal means that they are born free and equal.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795, by Edward J. Larson

Online Recommendation of the Week: Notes on the history of slavery in Massachusetts, by GH Moore: https://archive.org/details/cu31924027056039

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The American Revolution Podcast round table met on Zoom to discuss Lord Dunmore's War on the eve of the 250th Anniversary of the Battle of Point Pleasant. Author Glenn Williams provided us with a great summary of those events.

For more on this topic, get a copy of Dunmore's War: The Last Conflict of America's Colonial Era, by Glenn Williams (available in paper, Kindle, or audio versions).

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In 1783, General Henry Knox proposes the establishment of a private organization for Continental officers called The Society of the Cincinnati. National leaders see the new group as a threat trying to undermine freedom and self-government.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Society of the Cincinnati: Conspiracy and Distrust in Early America, by Markus Hünemörder .

Online Recommendation of the Week:  Society of the Cincinnati: https://www.societyofthecincinnati.org

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In November, 1783, Washington takes leave of his officers and the army after the British Depart New York. Washington makes his way to Annapolis to resign. Congress misses the arrival of the Dutch Ambassador and scrambles to get the final peace treaty ratified while accepting Washington's resignation. Finally a civilian, Washington arrives home at Mount Vernon on Christmas Eve, 1783.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: General Washington's Christmas Farewell: A Mount Vernon Homecoming, 1783, by Stanley Weintraub.

Online Recommendation of the Week:  Washington’s Resignation Speech December 23, 1783 https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdstatehouse/pdf/webversion.pdf

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Although parties had established a preliminary peace treaty in 1782, the process of moving the British army and loyalist civilians out of New York took well over a year. General Guy Carleton remained concerned about leaving behind any loyalists who might suffer the wrath of their neighbors for loyalty to the crown.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: Guy Carleton: A Biography, by Paul R. Reynolds

Online Recommendation of the Week:  A Tory-Eye View of the Evacuation of New York, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23174025

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The Powder Alarm resulted from a British raid in September, 1774 to capture powder from a local storage site. It made clear that the patriots needed better intelligence and a better rapid response system to challenge the British soldiers.

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Although major operations of the war ended in 1781, it took several more years before negotiators could work out a peace treaty. The American Peace Commissioners bickered with one another, and had to navigate French diplomacy and British politics to reach a final deal. On September 3, 1783, all parties signed Peace treaties in Paris, formally agreeing to the terms that would end the war.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: The Treaty of Paris: The Precursor to a New Nation, by Edward Renehan (borrow on archive.org). 

Online Recommendation of the Week:   “Definitive Treaty of Peace between the United States and Great Britain, 3 September 1783,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-40-02-0356

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In June of 1783, British forces (not yet aware of the preliminary peace treaty that had been concluded in late 1782) attacked the Indian town of Cuddalore. The British besiege the city while a French fleet challenges a larger British fleet from control of the waters off the city. The British Commander, General James Stuart, finds himself fighting not only the French and Mysore, but also finds himself at odds with the British Governor who controlled the region for the East India Company.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: Suffren Versus Hughes: War in the Indian Ocean 1781-1783, by Quinton Barry.

Online Recommendation of the Week:  The Siege of Cuddalore (1783) https://www.ripublication.com/ijhss/ijhssv5n1_09.pdf

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In the summer of 1783, disgruntled Continental soldiers march on Philadelphia, forcing Congress to flee to Princeton. Washington sends the majority of the Army home, keeping only a few hundred men.

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Book Recommendation of the Week: American Crisis: George Washington and the Dangerous Two Years after Yorktown, 1781-1783, by William H. Fowler, Jr.

Online Recommendation of the Week:  New Light on the Philadelphia Mutiny of 1783: Federal-State Confrontation at the Close of the War for Independence http://www.jstor.org/stable/20091201 or https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/view/43383/43104

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