Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle.(Book Review)

From: The Historian | Date: September 22, 2004| Author: Leibiger, Stuart | Copyright information

Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle. By Leonard L. Richards. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Pp. x, 204. $24.95.)

Every high school and college student learns that Shays's Rebellion was an uprising of debtors, mostly former Tories, who closed several Massachusetts courts to save their farms from foreclosure. The only problem, according to Leonard L. Richards, is that the textbook interpretation is all wrong.

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