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Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia Audiobook, by Woody Holton Play Audiobook Sample

Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia Audiobook

Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia Audiobook, by Woody Holton Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Cassandra Campbell Publisher: Tantor Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.75 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: March 2019 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781977341563

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

15

Longest Chapter Length:

59:24 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

08 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

30:01 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

4

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Publisher Description

In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against their own rule.

The Virginia gentry's efforts to shape London's imperial policy were thwarted by British merchants and by a coalition of Indian nations. In 1774, elite Virginians suspended trade with Britain in order to pressure Parliament and, at the same time, to save restive Virginia debtors from a terrible recession. The boycott and the growing imperial conflict led to rebellions by enslaved Virginians, Indians, and tobacco farmers. By the spring of 1776 the gentry believed the only way to regain control of the common people was to take Virginia out of the British Empire.

Forced Founders uses the new social history to shed light on a classic political question: why did the owners of vast plantations, viewed by many of their contemporaries as aristocrats, start a revolution? As Holton's fast-paced narrative unfolds, the old story of patriot versus loyalist becomes decidedly more complex.

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About Woody Holton

Woody Holton is an associate professor of history at the University of Richmond in Virginia and a former Guggenheim fellow. He is the author of the award-winning books Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution, a finalist for the National Book Award, and Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia, which earned him a prestigious Merle Curti Award for Social History from the Organization of American Historians. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.

About Cassandra Campbell

Cassandra Campbell has won multiple Audie Awards, Earphones Awards, and the prestigious Odyssey Award for narration. She was been named a “Best Voice” by AudioFile magazine and in 2018 was inducted in Audible’s inaugural Narrator Hall of Fame.