Book contents
- Friends of Freedom
- Friends of Freedom
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The American Revolution Ignites Social Movements
- 1 The Sons of Liberty and the Creation of a Movement Model
- 2 From Boycott Mobilization to the American Revolution
- 3 Wilkes, Liberty, and the Anglo-American Crisis
- 4 The British Association Movement and Parliamentary Reform
- 5 The Irish Volunteers and Militant Reform
- 6 Religious Freedom, Political Liberty, and Protestant Dissenter Civil Rights
- 7 The Rise of American Abolitionism
- 8 British Abolitionism and the Broadening of Social Movements
- Part II The French Revolution Radicalizes Social Movements
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Wilkes, Liberty, and the Anglo-American Crisis
from Part I - The American Revolution Ignites Social Movements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 October 2021
- Friends of Freedom
- Friends of Freedom
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The American Revolution Ignites Social Movements
- 1 The Sons of Liberty and the Creation of a Movement Model
- 2 From Boycott Mobilization to the American Revolution
- 3 Wilkes, Liberty, and the Anglo-American Crisis
- 4 The British Association Movement and Parliamentary Reform
- 5 The Irish Volunteers and Militant Reform
- 6 Religious Freedom, Political Liberty, and Protestant Dissenter Civil Rights
- 7 The Rise of American Abolitionism
- 8 British Abolitionism and the Broadening of Social Movements
- Part II The French Revolution Radicalizes Social Movements
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
America’s War of Independence led to an upsurge of support for reform in Britain, as the costly conflict heightened critiques of government repressiveness and lack of representation. In 1778, freeholders mobilized the Association Movement, which sought to raise a national wave of petitions in support of Parliamentary Reform. The movement and its affiliated Society for Constitutional Information caucused reformers of many causes – radical and moderate, including special-interest reformers seeking greater religious freedom and/or antislavery measures – together to make a common push for systemic changes.
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- Friends of FreedomThe Rise of Social Movements in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, pp. 70 - 94Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021