Dear Papa, Dear Charley The Peregrinations of a Revolutionary Aristocrat, As Told by Charles Carroll of Carrollton and His Father, Charles Carroll of Annapolis, with Sundry Observations on Bastardy, Child-Rearing, Romance, Matrimony, Commerce, Tobacco, Slavery, and the Politics of Revolutionary America |
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| Editor:
| Hoffman, Ronald
Mason, Sally D.
Darcy, Eleanor S. |
| Series title: | Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8078-2649-2 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2001 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $378.00 |
Book Description:
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This three-volume collection of correspondence between a father and a son documents 18th-century America through the intimate story of a Maryland family and the journey from boyhood to political prominence of its most illustrious member, Charles Carroll of Carrolton, the only Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. It offers a new perspective on colonial and Revolutionary America as the lived experience of Roman Catholics, whose defiant adherence to their faith denied...
More DescriptionThis three-volume collection of correspondence between a father and a son documents 18th-century America through the intimate story of a Maryland family and the journey from boyhood to political prominence of its most illustrious member, Charles Carroll of Carrolton, the only Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. It offers a new perspective on colonial and Revolutionary America as the lived experience of Roman Catholics, whose defiant adherence to their faith denied them the rights that Protestants enjoyed.