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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 ChildRearing Romance Matrimony Commerce Tobacco S
Author: Ronald Hoffman, Sally D. Mason, Eleanor S. Darcy

This compelling collection of correspondence between a father and a son documents the history of eighteenth-century America through the intimate story of a family and the journey from boyhood to political prominence of its most illustrious member, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the only Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. B...  more »eginning in the late 1740s, when "Papa" (Charles Carroll of Annapolis) sent "Charley" (Charles Carroll of Carrollton) away from his native Maryland to be educated in Europe, the letters present a new perspective on colonial and Revolutionary America as the lived experience of Roman Catholics, whose defiant adherence to their faith denied them the civil rights and guarantees--including the right to hold office and to vote--that their Protestant counterparts enjoyed. This context accentuates the drama of Charley's rise to power during the Revolution, the necessity of the political and economic compromises he felt compelled to make, and the ultimately tragic personal price exacted by his success. Bringing the Carroll's public and private lives sharply into focus, these volumes present the past in its fullest human dimensions.  « less

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ISBN-13: 9780807826492
ISBN-10: 0807826499
Publication Date: 12/31/2001
Pages: 1,651
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Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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