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Public Universal Friend

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CHAPTER

The American Revolution - A History of Insurgency

The American Revolution, the 1780s and 1790s, is this growing association between citizenship and manliness. I think there's a gendered context to this. The friend can't legally own property because the law does not recognize the universal friend as a being. So you see this resistance, this betrayal, manifest itself in a number of ways.

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