Seized with the Temper of the Times is a r eexamination of the Stamp Act riots in Rhode Island and the Regulator Rebe llion in North Carolina. Local author and historian Abby Chandler will dis cuss her book\, focusing on the Howard family and the role of Martin Howar d in both historical events.
\nThis book explores\, as never before\ , the complex local and transatlantic tensions which infused the early imp erial crisis. &ldquo\;Our personal rights\, comprehending those of life\, liberty\, and estate is every subject&rsquo\;s birthright\, whether born i n Great Britain or in the colonies&rdquo\; wrote Rhode Island lawyer and p olitician Martin Howard in a pamphlet defending the Stamp Act. Howard&rsqu o\;s opponents drew on a similar fusion of Anglo-American common law and p olitical tradition to voice their own arguments against Parliamentary taxa tion. Still\, such commonalities were not enough to save Howard during New port&rsquo\;s Stamp Act riots when a mob destroyed his home and forced him to flee to London. Howard was later appointed North Carolina&rsquo\;s Chi ef Justice\, where he played an important role in another crisis\, the Reg ulator Rebellion. By examining the Stamp Act crisis and the Regulator Rebe llion through the eyes of the Howard family\, this talk brings these movem ents to vivid life while telling a broader story about the evolution of Am erican political thought in the decades surrounding the American Revolutio n.
\nAbby Chandler is Associate Professor of Early American History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She has published articles on p olitical movements in eighteenth-century British North America in Early Am erican Studies\, Protest in the Long Eighteenth Century\, and the North Ca rolina Historical Review. She is also serves on the 250th American Revolut ion Anniversary Commission in Massachusetts.
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