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And then this Stamp Act comes along, and it coupled with the Sugar Act of 1764 and the proclamation of 1763.

And as you know, Americans are starting to feel like there's this kind of movement in parliament, as they said back then, to enslave them.

And certainly that meant just kind of taking away much of their liberties, more economic than anything else, I would think. But Georgians

dealt with that, I think, in many of the same ways that everybody else did. There were tarn featherings

in Georgia. James Wright's house was fired into during the Stamp Act tumult of the 1760s. It wasn't

burned down. He was no Thomas Hutchinson in that regard, but it wasn't too far different in terms of

how he felt.

Hello and welcome to episode 421 of Ben Franklin's World, the podcast dedicated to helping you learn more about how the people and events of our early American past have shaped the present-day

world we live in. And I'm your host, Liz Covert. What if loyalty, not rebellion,

was the default position in revolutionary British North America? It's easy to forget that before

1776, most colonists identified as proud Britons. They didn't see themselves as future Americans

or revolutionaries. They saw themselves as future Americans or revolutionaries.

They saw themselves as subjects of a global empire.

And in the colony of Georgia, many clung to that identity far longer than we might expect.

Today, we're exploring the American Revolution in Georgia, a colony often left out of our histories of the American Revolution.

Yet Georgia's experiences in the Revolution offers us rich insight into loyalism,

imperial politics, and how personal conviction and loyal conditions shape the course of the

revolution's events.

Greg Brooking, a historian of the American Revolution in the South, and a high school

history and social studies teacher, joins us to explore the American Revolution in the South and a high school history and social studies

teacher joins us to explore the American Revolution in Georgia with details from his book,

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