A Letter to Doctor Tucker on His Proposal of a Separation between Great Britain and Her American Colonies
- Anonymous Pamphleteer 1774 (author)
- Jack P. Greene (collection editor)
This 1774 pamphlet is a rejoinder to Josiah Tucker, a British clergyman and economist who had provocatively proposed that Great Britain simply let its American colonies go rather than continue the costly struggle to maintain control over them. The anonymous author pushes back against Tucker’s separationist argument, engaging with the political and economic tensions that were rapidly accelerating toward the American Revolution.
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