Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania

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Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania is a series of influential essays published in 1767–1768 that argued against British taxation and helped shape colonial American opposition leading up to the American Revolution.

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instanceOf pamphlet literature
series of political essays
addressesEvent Stamp Act crisis aftermath
Townshend Revenue Act
linked to: Revenue Act of 1767
author John Dickinson
circulation widely reprinted in colonial newspapers
countryOfOrigin Thirteen Colonies
firstPublishedIn Pennsylvania Chronicle
Pennsylvania Gazette
genre political essay
political pamphlet
hasPart Letter I
Letter II
Letter III
Letter IV
Letter IX
Letter V
Letter VI
Letter VII
Letter VIII
Letter X
Letter XI
Letter XII
historicalPeriod pre-Revolutionary America
influenced American Revolution
American colonial public opinion
First Continental Congress delegates
influencedBy English constitutional thought
Whig political theory
keyTheme distinction between regulation of trade and raising revenue
legal rights of Englishmen in the colonies
loyalty to the Crown combined with resistance to Parliament
language English
laterPublishedAs pamphlet
mainSubject British taxation in the American colonies
Townshend Acts
constitutional rights of American colonists
relationship between Parliament and colonial assemblies
taxation without representation
notableFor articulation of constitutional arguments against Parliamentary taxation
helping unify colonial opposition to British policies
numberOfLetters 12
placeOfPublication Pennsylvania
politicalPosition defense of colonial rights within the British Empire
opposition to British taxation measures
publicationEndDate 1768
publicationFormat newspaper essays
publicationStartDate 1767
reception highly influential among American colonists

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John Dickinson notableWork Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
John Dickinson knownFor Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
John Dickinson notableWork Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
subject linked to: Dickinson
Penman of the Revolution relatedToWork Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
John Dickinson notableWork Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
subject linked to: President of Pennsylvania
John Dickinson drafted Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
subject linked to: President of Pennsylvania