Portrait of Manasseh Dawes

Manasseh Dawes

Manasseh Dawes was a writer trained in the law and a member of the Inner Temple, another of the four English “Inns of Court,” who, like Thomas Parker, took up his pen against various moral and constitutional outrages in the peripheries of the empire. He was especially attuned to Whiggish arguments for free trade and for leaving colonials alone to encourage the benefits that flow from commerce and minimal regulation.

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