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Ben Franklin's World

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The Evolution of the American Revolution

I don't think you can have a discussion about the American Revolution without talking about power. We are seeing ways in which members, not just of the elite founding generation, but members of across colonial America, across the Caribbean really made their voices heard in that moment. So I completely agree that we really can't view the revolutionary period as 1767 to 1783. It has to be a much longer and broader process to actually look at the full scope of the evolution and its impacts.

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