Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle

From: The Virginia Quarterly Review | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Anonymous | Copyright information

Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle, by Leonard L. Richards.

Histories of Shays's Rebellion point to debt and debt suits as the reason why farmers in western Massachusetts rose against the courts and the state government in the fall and winter of 1786-87. Richards develops a line of causation that was first introduced by Robert H. Brown in his Redeeming the Revolution (Johns Hopkins, 1993), that it was the inequitable state tax structure that provoked the rebelli...

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