The Schlager Anthology of the American Revolution offers a modern, original sourcebook covering the movement for American independence.

Table of Contents

• Reader’s Guide
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: British America in 1763
• Benjamin Franklin: “Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind”
• Benjamin Franklin: Albany Plan of Union
• Benjamin Franklin: Join, or Die
• Jonathan Mayhew: Two Discourses
• James Glen: “The Situation, Strength, and Connections of the Several Nations of Neighboring Indians”
• Minavavana: Address to Alexander Henry
• Pontiac: “Master of Life” Speech
• Proclamation of 1763
• Paxton Boys: A Declaration and Remonstrance of the Distressed and Bleeding Frontier Inhabitants of the Province of Pennsylvania
• Benjamin West: The Death of General Wolfe
• Chapter 2: The Imperial Crisis
• Thomas Pownall: The Administration of the Colonies
• Oxenbridge Thacher: The Sentiments of a British American
• James Otis: The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved
• Daniel Dulany: Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes in the British Colonies, for the Purpose of Raising a Revenue, by Act of Parliament
• Patrick Henry: Virginia Resolves on the Stamp Act
• Francis Bernard: Letter to the Board ofTrade
• Thomas Moffat: Letter to Joseph Harrison on the Newport Riot
• Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress
• William Bradford: “Expiring: In Hopes of a Resurrection to Life Again”
• Nathaniel Ryder: The Great Debate in the Committee of the Whole House of Commons on the Stamp Act, 1766
• Letter from London Merchants Urging Repeal of the Stamp Act
• House of Commons Examination of Benjamin Franklin about the Stamp Act
• Chapter 3: The Crisis Deepens
• The Declaratory Act
• George Mason: Letter to the Committee of Merchants in London
• “Address to the Ladies”
• “Save Your Money, and Save Your Country!”
• John Dickinson: Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
• Report on the Boston Massacre
• Paul Revere: The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King-Street Boston on March 5th 1770, by a party of the 29th Reg
• Joseph Warren: “Boston Massacre: An Oration”
• Benjamin Franklin: “Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One”
• “Tea, Destroyed by Indians”
• Edenton Tea Party
• George Hewes: Recollection of the Boston Massacre
• Chapter 4: Rebellion
• Intolerable Acts
• Quebec Act
• Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress
• First Continental Congress: Letter to the Inhabitants of the Province of Quebec
• Patrick Henry: “Liberty or Death” Speech
• Francis Smith: Letter to Governor Thomas Gage
• Anna Young Smith: “An Elegy to the Memory of the American Volunteers”
• Thomas Gage: Offer of Amnesty
• Olive Branch Petition
• Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms
• Proclamation by the King for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition
• The Second Continental Congress Responds to King George III’s Proclamation of Rebellion
• Thomas Paine: Common Sense
• Charles Inglis: The Deceiver Unmasked
• Declaration of Independence
• Chapter 5: The Limits of Independence
• Felix: Petition to the Governor of Massachusetts
• Peter Bestes, et al.: Letter to Their Representatives
• Phillis Wheatley: Letter to Samson Occom
• Lord Dunmore: Proclamation
• Original Draft of the Declaration of Independence
• Thomas Hutchinson: Strictures on the Declaration of the Congress at Philadelphia
• Petition of Prince Hall and Others to the Massachusetts General Court
• Nero Brewster: Petition to the New Hampshire General Assembly
• Pennsylvania: An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery
• Cato: Letter and Petition to the Pennsylvania Assembly
• Thomas Jefferson: Notes on the State of Virginia
• Chapter 6: Winning the War
• George Washington: Address to the Continental Congress
• George Washington: Letter to Martha Washington
• George Washington: General Orders
• Abigail Adams: “Remember the Ladies” Letter
• John Adams: Reply to the “Remember the Ladies” Letter
• George Washington: Letter to John Hancock
• Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 1
• Molly Gutridge: “A New Touch on the Times”
• Esther DeBerdt Reed: Sentiments of an American Woman
• Representation of a Parade Condemning the Treason of Benedict Arnold
• Eliza Wilkinson: Letters from a Planter’s Daughter
• George Washington: Farewell Address
• Boyrereau Brinch: Pension Application
• Memoirs of Andrew Sherburne; a Pensioner of the Navy of the Revolution
• Jehu Grant: Pension Application
• Chapter 7: Losing the War
• Janet Schaw: Treatment of Loyalists in North Carolina
• Joseph Brant: Letter to Lord George Germain
• Nicholas Cresswell: Journal of a Loyalist in Virginia
• Anna Rawle: “A Loyalist’s Daughter”
• Murphy Stiel: “The Lost Dream”
• William Humphrey: The Savages Let Loose, or the Cruel Fate of the Loyalists
• Chickasaw Chiefs: Appeal to Congress
• Freedom Certificate
• “Memoirs on the Life of Boston King”
• A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
• List of Documents by Category