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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
John A Ragosta |
| ISBN: | 9780195388060 0195388062 |
| OCLC Number: | 430344531 |
| Description: | viii, 261 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Virginians dissent -- Pleading for reform and demanding freedom -- British plans for success -- Did the dissenters fight? -- After the war -- What did they fight, and bargain for? |
| Responsibility: | John A. Ragosta. |
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"Historians and the Supreme Court have repeatedly noted that the foundation of the First Amendment's protection of religious liberty lies in Virginia's struggle, turning primarily to Jefferson and Madison to understand this. In Wellspring of Liberty, John A. Ragosta argues that Virginia's religious dissenters played a seminal and previously underappreciated role in the development of the First Amendment and in the meaning of religious freedom as we understand it today."--Jacket.
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A superb telling of an inadequately explored part of the revolution in Virginia. Wellspring of Liberty deserves to take a prominent place on the shelf of religious and social history during the American Revolution. Daniel Clinkman, Reviews in History Read more...
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