Revolutionary Reader Reminiscences And Indian Legends
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R. , in January, 1909. 162 Eevolutionary Reader RHODE ISLAND IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The American colonies, though subjects of Great Britain, stoutly resisted the payment of revenues of customs; not l^ecause they doubted the justice, but they did object to the intolerant manner of demanding the revenues. Rhode Island, the smallest of the thirteen colonies, was destined to take an important part in this resistance which brought about the American Revolution. The English parliament, in 1733, ...passed the famous "Sugar Act" which laid a heavy tax upon West India products imported into the northern colonies. Rhode Island protested, declaring that only in this way could she be paid for her exports to the West Indies and thus be able to purchase from England. The other colonies also ob- jected and Richard Partridge, the appointed agent to look after the interests of the Rhode Island colony, conducted this affair for all the colonies. In his letter he declared that the act deprived the colonists of their rights as Eng- lishmen, in laying taxes upon them without their consent or representation.
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