Jeremy Scahill

So the news didn't circulate as quickly.

but these pamphlets were also read aloud.

So people didn't just read them, they heard them.

Ironically, because they were patriotic.

They were British subjects.

They felt an attachment to the king.

Some of them had been born in the British Isles or their parents had been.

They felt a strong connection there.

They were worried.

They knew that the British Empire had done a lot for them.

The British Empire was the root of the economy.

So that is the political argument.

That is the economic argument.

All these benefits they'd gotten from the British Empire.

Why would you give any of that up?

It was an uncivil war because it was so hard fought.

A vicious local fight that played out for all kinds of reasons.

When people hear about the American Revolution, they often think, wait a minute, I didn't know religion mattered in this.

I didn't know ethnicity mattered in this, but it did.

He moved to Philadelphia because not only was Philadelphia a bigger city and was more vibrant, Boston was still very much a city under the control of, by then, the kind of fourth generation descendants of the Puritan aristocracy.