Summary Of Give Me A Liberty By Eric Foner

The first revolution - the struggle for independence from the British Empire - created one of the first democracies in the world. However, it ended in a compromise between the capitalist class of the North and the owners of plantations, where slave labor was used, in the South. As I read in the 5th chapter of our textbook "Give Me a Liberty" by Eric Foner that in 1763 Britain dominated the entire North Atlantic continent and Britain was subordinated to 13 colonies, which were located on the Atlantic coast and the northern lands of Canada. Their residents were unhappy with the situation, so the country's leadership faced a new challenge - how to cope with the indignant people? About 3 million people lived in the colony at that time.
The ideology of supporters and opponents of independence was often also different. Loyalists, on the whole, gravitated toward conservative views, and considered the uprising against the Crown as treason, whereas their opponents, on the contrary, strove for everything new, for example, they wanted a new history of the countries of Europe and America. So, how supporters and opponents of independence used the concepts of “freedom” and
We can read some important quotes by Thomas Paine in the book "Give me Liberty" such as: "Freedom hath been hunted around the globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled her? Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart"(voice of freedom 203). Also, in the book "Common Sense "(1776) we can read: “The independence of America should have been considered as dating its era from, and published by, the first musket that was filed against her. This is a line of consistency; neither drawn by caprice nor extended by ambition; but produced by a chain of events, of which the colonies were not the authors ... We have it in our power to begin the world over again ... The birthday of a new world is at hand ... Every day convinces us of its necessity.” So, he keeps insisting throughout his polemics. And we can see that Tom Paine believed that freedom was the only answer to the problems of the day; he was the first to openly propagate the idea of a free and independent the United States of