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The Long Fuse - The First Continental Congress
In September 1774, 56 men from twelve colonies rode to Philadelphia and sat down together for the first time, strangers and rivals trying to discover whether they were anything more than twelve separate colonies. This is the story of the First Continental Congress: Patrick Henry declaring himself no longer a Virginian but an American; Samuel Adams quietly outmaneuvering the conservatives at every turn; and Joseph Galloway making the last serious case for staying inside the empire, a case voted down by a single colony and then struck from the record. It is also where the Loyalist voice begins…
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