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Charles J. Bullock has described in sufficient detailthe "carnival of fraud and corruption" which attended the paper moneycoined or rather printed by most of the American colonies in thecentury preceding the American Revolution. Thus, about the middle ofthe eighteenth century, the paper money of Massachusetts fell to aneighth of its original value. People were driven to barter, and onewriter observed that "the morals of the people depreciate with thecurrency. " Parties were divided into debtors... and creditors, and a NewEngland writer in 1749 noted: "The Debtor side has had the ascendantever since anno 1741 to the almost utter ruin of the country. "[6] Tothis writer belongs the credit of discerning, at a time when evenBenjamin Franklin was in error, that "the repeated large emissions ofPaper Money" were responsible for its depreciation. [5] Macmillan, 1900. [6] Douglass. "Not worth a Continental" is an expression which brings us to the nextchapter in American experience of inconvertible paper currencies.
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