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The title says it all: Edward Rawson’s defence of Boston’s defiance of the monarch on the eve of the Glorious Revolution in his Revolution in New England Justified (Boston: 1691). Popular uprisings, protests against taxation without representation, a royal governor imprisoned… long before 1776, New England rejected royal rule.

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“OUR FATHERS HAD PLENTY OF DEER AND OUR COVES WERE FILLED WITH FISH. BUT THESE ENGLISH HAVING GOTTEN OUR LAND, THEY CUT DOWN THE GRASS, THEY FELL THE TREES…WE SHALL ALL BE STARVED.”

- Miantonomi, sachem of the Narragansett, 1641