| Author | Drayton, William Henry, 1742-1779.
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| Title | The letters of Freeman, etc. : essays on the nonimportation movement in South Carolina / collected by William Henry Drayton ; edited with an introd. and notes by Robert M. Weir.
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| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Published | Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 1977.
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| Description | xxxvi, 157 p. ; 23 cm.
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| Series | South Carolina Tricentennial Commission. Tricentennial edition ; no. 6.
Tricentennial edition ; no. 6
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| ISBN | 0-87249-260-5 |
| General Note | A few letters by Christopher Gadsden, John Mackenzie, and William Wragg are included.
"The letters ... were written in ... South Carolina, in the year 1769, in consequence of the resolutions which had been formed in that colony on the 28th of June and the 22d of July in the same year, to prevent the importation of British manufactures .... The ... letters ... are ... now delivered to the public in the order in which they appeared in the South Carolina gazette."
Reprint of the 1771 ed. printed in London.
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| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Subjects | Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Commerce -- Sources.
South Carolina -- Politics and government -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes -- Sources.
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| Other Authors | Gadsden, Christopher, 1724-1805.
Mackenzie, John, d. 1771.
Wragg, William, 1714-1777
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| LC Card Number | 76-56096//r932 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: E 215.1 D769
mq19182: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 12438] |
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