In response to the 1775 Stamp Act, American colonists looted the home of Massachusetts’ loyalist lieutenant governor, stole the wine out of his cellar and left nothing “but the bare walls and floors”https://www.colonialsociety.org/publications/3297/such-ruins-were-never-seen-america-looting-thomas-hutchinsons-house-time-stamp …
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Replying to @JStein_WaPo
Bernard Bailyn's biography of Hutchinson is a little more sympathetic to its subject than it needed to be.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Have only read “Ideological Origins” but would take your word for it
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Replying to @JStein_WaPo
The book was written in the wake of the 1960s and I think that caused Bailyn to identify a bit with the Tory gentry under siege from scruffy radicals.
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