Patrick Spero is the librarian of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, the oldest learned society in the United States, and the author of Frontier Country: The Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania. He previously taught history at Williams College.
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In Frontier Rebels, historian Patrick Spero tells the story of the Black Boys, a band of rebels whose protests ignited the American Revolution. In 1765, as the Stamp Act riled eastern seaports, frontiersmen clashed with the British Empire over another iss... SEE MORE