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- GLC#
- GLC01790.01
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- October 31, 1770
- Author/Creator
- Dickinson, John, 1732-1808
- Title
- to Catharine Macaulay
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 4 p. : docket ; Height: 23 cm, Width: 19 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- Road to Revolution
Argues that the Freeholders of America are firm in the cause of liberty. Associates the colonial cause with virtue and piety and implicitly identifies Britain with luxury and corruption. It is notable that so many colonists addressed their appeals to an Englishwoman.
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