Daniel Shays's honorable rebellion : an american story

Daniel Shays's honorable rebellion : an american story

Yardley, PA : Westholme Publishing, 2021

xxvi, 288 p., [6] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.

974.403 B936 2021

(OCoLC)1255777050

On January 25, 1787, in Springfield, Massachusetts, militia Major General William Shepard ordered his cannon to fire grapeshot at a peaceful demonstration of 1,200 farmers approaching the federal arsenal. The shots killed four and wounded twenty, marking the climax of five months of civil disobedience in Massachusetts, where farmers challenged the state’s authority to seize their farms for flagrantly unjust taxes. Government leaders and influential merchants painted these protests as a violent attempt to overthrow the state, in hopes of garnering support for strengthening the federal government in a Constitutional Convention. As a result, the protests have been hidden for more than two hundred years under the misleading title, “Shays’s Rebellion, the armed uprising that led to the Constitution.” But this widely accepted narrative is just a legend: the “rebellion” was almost entirely nonviolent, and retired revolutionary war hero Daniel Shays was only one of many leaders--Book jacket.|Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-273) and index.|L2021M180

Library Catalog > Monographs > Modern books
All Cataloged Material
All records