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Impressment and the Declaration of Independence
with Andrew Sola and Prof. Denver Brunsman (George Washington U.)
"He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands."
Today we explore Grievance #26 in the Declaration of Independence, which protested against the Royal Navy practice of impressment, the forced conscription of sailors into naval service.
Topics include the following:
-a description of the life of seafarers in the 18th century
-a detailed overview of the British practice of…
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