Enemies to their country : the Marblehead Addressers and consensus in the American Revolution /

"In 1774, a group of elite men in the town of Marblehead, Massachusetts, just outside Salem, wrote an address to the royal governor thanking him for his service to the colony, even as town residents began demanding independence from Great Britain. Town meeting records reveal how the town's...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gentile, Nicholas W. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2025]
Subjects:	Hutchinson, Thomas, > 1711-1780 > Correspondence. Consensus (Social sciences) > Massachusetts > History > 18th century. Massachusetts > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. United States > Politics and government > To 1775. United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Causes. Marblehead (Mass.) > History > 18th century. Massachusetts > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale) États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > Jusqu'à 1775. États-Unis > Histoire > 1775-1783 (Révolution) > Causes. Hutchinson, Thomas, > 1711-1780 Consensus (Social sciences) Politics and government War > Causes Massachusetts Massachusetts > Marblehead United States To 1799 History Personal correspondence Personal narratives Personal narratives. Récits personnels.

Table of Contents:

The Address of Thirty-Three Marbleheaders to Governor Thomas Hutchinson
Resolutions from a Town Meeting about "Enemies to Their Country"
Preface and Acknowledgments
Prologue: Patriots, Loyalists, Neutrals, and the Wavering
Introduction: Codfish, Congregationalism, and Consensus
1. Revolutionary Marblehead
2. Consensus through Cooperation
3. The Address to Thomas Hutchinson
4. Consensus through Social Pressure and Moral Suasion
5. Shadow Governments and Political Reconstitution
6. Patriots Ascendant
7. The Salem Alarm
8. The Powder Keg Explodes
9. Consensus through Separation
10. The Exile of Benjamin Marston
11. Realignment with the Consensus
12. An Outsider's Inside View of the Addressers' Affair
Conclusion: Violent Labor.