“Well as you know the rumor of an Anglican bishop in America was enough to scare the wits out of them because of what its effects would be on the practice of religion but there were developments, initially of course, of taxation which they wouldn’t accept because they had no role in it, despite the fact that most people in Britain never had a role in their own taxation. “It was this – the overwhelming evidence, as they saw it, that they were faced with conspirators against liberty determined at all costs to gain ends which their worlds dissembled – that was signaled to the colonists after 1763, and it was this above all else that in the end propelled them into Revolution.”īailyn further explains, in an interview with Liz Covart about the origins of the American Revolution, on her podcast Ben Franklin’s World, that “this overwhelming evidence” was the various attempts made by the British government to meddle in colonial affairs, such as with new taxes, an increased military presence in the colonies and etc: McRae, circa 1875īailyn argues that when the colonists saw what they believed were signs of this conspiracy at work, it spurred them to rebel: ![]() ![]() Protestors pulling down statue of George III in New York in July of 1776, engraving by John C.
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