Declarations of Independence: Indigenous Resilience, Colonial Rivalries, and the Cost of Revolution with Christopher R. Pearl (U Virginia Press, 2024)
Chris Pearl's Declarations of Independence: Indigenous Resilience, Colonial Rivalries, and the Cost of Revolution (U Virginia Press, 2024) is a fascinating exploration of the American Revolution's causes and consequences on the Pennsylvania frontier. The history of the Fairplay settlement on the West Branch of the Susquehanna River - which (allegedly) declared independence from Pennsylvania AND the British Empire on July 4, 1776 - reveals the complicated, intertwined nature of the Revolution in the backcountry. Pearl illuminates how many groups - Indigenous and colonial - vied for control in…
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