Title page from A Vindication of Rights of The Americans

A Vindication of Rights of The Americans

A Vindication of Rights of The Americans is an anonymous pamphlet. As its title suggests, the work defends the rights of the American colonists, situating it among the loyalist and patriot writings that shaped the transatlantic argument leading up to the American Revolution.

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The text of these 18th century pamphlets has been converted by machine from scanned PDFs of the original microfilm copies. While the text has been machine-proofed, transcription errors may still remain. For example, the 18th-century long S, ſ , may be rendered as “f,” some words may be incorrectly transcribed, and there may be repeated words or phrases.