Titles by Arthur Lee

1740 – 1792

A member of a prominent Virginia family, Arthur Lee was educated at Eton College in England, later took a degree in medicine at the University of Edinburgh and studied law in London. He stayed in Europe to represent American interests, serving in that capacity alongside Franklin in London for a time, and also to Spain and Prussia. After the war, he returned to Virginia to briefly represent his state in Congress. Like Jefferson and Franklin, he saw slavery as an evil fostered by imperial policy.

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An Essay In Vindication Of The Continental Colonies Of America, from A Censure of Mr. Adam Smith, in his Theory of Moral Sentiments.

Arthur Lee

An appeal to the justice and interests of the people of Great Britain, in the present disputes with America. By an old Member of Parliament.

Arthur Lee

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