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"What does a responsible community do when a government falls apart?"
In this virtual program, learn about the lesser-known community leaders and everyday folks who stepped up in a time of crisis. Amidst crumbling British rule, thousands of farmers, lawyers, ministers, shopkeepers, and artisans all over British North America reluctantly took up the reins of power in their communities. Over the spring and summer of 1775, the revolutionary committees in small towns and rural communities took charge of the revolutionary movement. Exercising emergency civil powers, they established a fragile but effective rudimentary form of revolutionary government in place of the ousted colonial regimes.
Donald Johnson served as a 2024-2025 MHS-NEH long-term fellow. This program shares his new findings based on extensive research in the MHS collection.
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