Benjamin Franklin Explains the Stamp ACT Protests to Parliament, 1766

By Peter Charles Hoffer

Book Overview

Benjamin Franklin Explains the Stamp Act Protests to Parliament, 1766 brings together a unique collection of primary source documents, organized and arranged as a dialogue, to examine the issues surrounding the Stamp Act. The selections--at the center of which is Benjamin Franklin's examination in Parliament on February 13, 1766--are meant to be read as a continuous dialogue among leading colonists in America and politicians in England. While the individual documents were separated in time and space, here they are reconstituted as part of a consistent whole--a trans-Atlantic conversation about the nature of the empire, the rights of the colonists, and the powers of Parliament at a critical moment in American and British history. Some liberty has been taken in their editing in order to emphasize this conversational quality. A chronology preceding the documents indicates the sequence of their production, and a bibliographical essay at the end of the documents directs students to useful secondary sources.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199389683
• ISBN13: 9780199389681
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"