TY - BOOK AU - Parkinson,Robert G. TI - The common cause: creating race and nation in the American Revolution SN - 9781469628103 AV - E209 .C666 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press KW - Racism KW - United States KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; "A work of difficulty": communication networks, newspapers, and the common cause --; Interlude: the "shot heard 'round the world" revisited --; "Britain has found means to unite us": 1775 --; Merciless savages, domestic insurrectionists, and foreign mercenaries: independence --; "By the American Revolution you are now free": sticking together in trying times --; "It is the cause of heaven against hell": to the Carlisle Commission, 1777-1778 --; Interlude: Franklin and Lafayette's "Little book" --; "A striking picture of barbarity": Wyoming to the disaster at Savannah, 1778-1779 --; "This class of Britain's heroes": From the fall of Charleston to Yorktown --; "The substance is truth": after Yorktown, 1782-1783 --; "New provocations": The political and cultural consequences of revolutionary war stories; 2; b N2 - "In this pathbreaking book, Robert Parkinson argues that to unify the patriot side, political and communications leaders linked British tyranny to colonial prejudices, stereotypes, and fears about insurrectionary slaves and violent Indians. Manipulating newspaper networks, Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and their fellow agitators broadcast stories of British agents inciting African Americans and Indians to take up arms against the American rebellion. Using rhetoric like "domestic insurrectionists" and "merciless savages," the founding fathers rallied the people around a common enemy and made racial prejudice a cornerstone of the new Republic"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1074886&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -