“Poore Endebted Discontented and Armed”

As I was reading A People’s History of the United States of America this morning, I came across this interesting quote: Times were hard in 1676. “There was genuine distress, genuine poverty…. All contemporary sources speak of the great mass of people as living in severe economic straits,” writes Wilcomb Washburn, who, using British colonial […]

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