Keywords
Shays's Rebellion, Shaysite Rebellion, Daniel Shays
Abstract
Nearly all of the histories of Shays's Rebellion point to debt as the reason why farmers in western Massachusetts rose against the courts and the state government in the fall and winter of 1786-87. Recent scholarship demonstrates a new line of reasoning based on the tax records of those involved. The following thesis, a screenplay, offers a fictional telling of this insurgency. The story is told using language pulled from contemporary letters and documents and follows a line of causation pointing to inequitable state tax structure and poor representation as the provocation. The response that ensued was not a rebellion -- it was a Regulation.
Notes
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Graduation Date
2006
Semester
Spring
Advisor
Jones, Donald
Degree
Master of Arts (M.A.)
College
College of Arts and Sciences
Department
Office of Liberal and Interdisciplinary Studies
Degree Program
Liberal Studies
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0001051
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0001051
Language
English
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
STARS Citation
Porter, Karen, "Dogs In A Village" (2006). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 942.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/942