History 215

The files and links below will help you prepare your speeches and portfolio.

Background:

• Chronology
• Principles
• Background
• Economics
• Politics
• Society

The Patriot Cause

• Locke Introduction
• Locke
• Paine

The Loyalist Cause

• Chalmers
• Johnson
• Seabury
• KIng George III, Proclamation
• Dunmore

Links:

• Association of the Sons of Liberty of New York
• The Avalon Project, Documents in American History
• Black Loyalists, Canada’s Digital History
• William Cooper Nell, The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution …, 1855.
• The Narrative of James Roberts, a Soldier Under Gen. Washington in the Revolutionary War …”
• Phllis Wheatley, Poems
• Henry Laurens’ proposal to recruit slaves
• The Somerset Decision
• Olaudah Equiano
• More documents