Professor John McCurdy

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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · Sex Work in the American Revolution · 17 Apr 2026 podcast

I'm wonderful.

Thank you for asking.

Oh, a little complicated, but we're carrying on the best we can.

Well, I think we kind of have the king thing covered currently.

Sure, sure.

Yeah.

So, you know, just to give you a really brief sort of overview.

So historians say there's really a sort of two ways of thinking about it.

One, it's a long term separation.

One is short term effects.

So on the one hand, the colonies were never really a new England.

They were a plantation economy.

They had much more racial and religious diversity than England.

There was no

real central government.

There wasn't a very powerful army.

There's already changes going on going back to the 17th century.

But specifically, there's a series of events that we know will precipitate what we call the American Revolution.

And this comes at the end of the Seven Years' War, as Britain has racked up a great deal of debt from fighting France in the war and also has realized that the

Outside of the constraints of the empire.

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