Tory Reactions 1698 African Trade Act Virginia Slave Code 1705 Robert Harley’s investigations into Bacon’s Rebellion (1676-1705) Queen Anne’s speech on the Assiento 1712 Assiento and the Treaty of Utrecht 1710-1713 Cato by Joseph Addison 1712 Hogarth’s South Sea...
Colonial Aftershocks in the Nineteenth Century In the 19th Century, both slavery and power were fiercely contested in the United States and the British Empire. But even as slavery was abolished in some states and colonies, it became more deeply embedded in others. In...
Revolutionary Atlantics The American Revolution would start a chain of events that reverberated not just in the British Empire, but across the wider Atlantic world. These changes would affect almost every major aspect of colonial-turned-American society, including...
Whig Moments The Glorious Revolution led in England to some basic reforms in government and some important statements of rights, especially the English Bill of Rights of 1689. With James II’s departure (and the lapse of the licensing act in 1695), the decade of the...
Glorious Revolutions? The Stuart Kings continued to consolidate power in the 1680s, forcing dissenters such as John Locke to seek exile in Holland and prosecuting others, such as Algernon Sidney, for treason. Charles II’s death in 1685 led to the accession of his...
Reacting to Absolutism As the Stuart Monarchs consolidated their power on both sides of the Atlantic, the Whig Party emerged as a new coalition party within Parliament. The Whigs viewed the Stuart monarchs as threats to the liberties of English subjects, and they...
