An Examination of the Pre–Revolutionary War Pamphlet The Alarm. Number V
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Summary1. The Alarm. Number V is the last of a series of five topical essays published by Hampden, Pseudonym, in 1773. Each of the five essays was published in the month of October. Number V, like the prior Hampden essays, was published in New York, only once, and in only one edition. This is one of a number of pamphlets, folios, advertisements, and broadsides that were published in the Colonies prior to the culmination of the American Revolution. This publication comes after Great Britain’s imposed Proclamation of 1763, the Stamp Act (1765), the Declaratory Act (1766) and the Townshend Acts (1767) on the Colonies. As these Acts were issued by Great Britain, publications by authors—such as Benjamin Franklin, John Dickinson, and the Sons of Liberty—attempted to help repeal the Acts and spread awareness amongst the Americans in general.
Table of Contents- The Alarms were also published five months after the Tea Act, and two months before the Boston Tea Party
- The style of this piece is a very personal and similar to a sermon
- This document is both a persuasive and supportive text
- The larger aim of the document is to inculcate support among Colonists for repeals to the British taxation Acts
- Although the essay is at times very fervent, it is not ill-devised
- value the envied blessings you enjoy, purchased by the perillous [sic] toil and stern virtue of your ancestors
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