An Account of a Late Conference on the Occurances in America
- Joshua Steele (author)
- Jack P. Greene (collection editor)
This essay is a forty-page pamphlet by Joshua Steele, a London merchant with close ties to colonial commerce and an acquaintance of Benjamin Franklin. Published anonymously amid the heated transatlantic debate over British colonial policy, the pamphlet takes a sympathetic stance toward the American colonists, offering a defense of their grievances at a moment of escalating tension between the colonies and Parliament.
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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.