Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1 Never Did Nature and Fortune Combine More Perfectly 13
5. 2 My Great Good Fortune 37
6. 3 Drivers of Negroes 54
7. 4 Americans Will Never Be Tax’d without Their Own Consent 72
8. 5 An Immense Misfortune to the Whole Empire 90
9. 6 Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor 103
10. 7 That Service to the Cause of Liberty 119
11. 8 Yr. Most Obedt. & Very Hble. Servt. 142
12. 9 The Same World Will Scarcely Do for Them and Us 162
13. 10 I Like Much the General Idea of Framing a Government 184
14. 11 I Will Converse with You on the Subject 207
15. 12 The Sincerity of a Friendship 233
16. 13 Cruel War against Human Nature Itself 255
17. Epilogue 279
18. Abbreviations 297
19. Notes 299
20. Acknowledgments 335
21. Index 339