Preface

Contents

Illustrations

CHAPTER I THE CORNERSTONE OF LIBERTY

CHAPTER II SELF-GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER III WE PREFER ANOTHER GOVERNOR

CHAPTER IV ROYALTY OVERTHROWN

CHAPTER V A BACON! A BACON!

CHAPTER VI RECONSTRUCTION AND DESPOTISM

CHAPTER VII THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION

CHAPTER VIII THE VIRGINIA HITLER

CHAPTER IX THE VIRGINIA HOUSE OF LORDS

CHAPTER X SPOTSWOOD

CHAPTER XI PEACE AND PROSPERITY

CHAPTER XII AT STAKE LIBERTY AND A CONTINENT

CHAPTER XIII THE WIDENING RIFT

CHAPTER XIV INDEPENDENCE

ESSAY ON SOURCES

Index

GIVE ME LIBERTY

Memoirs of the

AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

held at Philadelphia
for Promoting Useful Knowledge

Volume 46

GIVE ME LIBERTY

The Struggle for Self-Government
in
Virginia

THOMAS J. WERTENBAKER
Edwards Professor Emeritus of American History
Princeton University



THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
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PHILADELPHIA
1958

Copyright 1958 by the American Philosophical Society



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