The Whiskey Rebellion by Thomas P. Slaughter
Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution
This compact narrative history reconstructs the 1790s uprising in western Pennsylvania against a federal excise tax on distilled spirits, tracing how economic hardship, whiskey’s role as currency, local honor cultures, and partisan politics drove farmers and distillers to resist. It follows the escalating protests, intimidation, and violence, the federal government’s mobilization of militia to enforce the law, and the legal and political aftermath that helped define the balance between local autonomy and national authority in the early Republic.
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- Published
- 1986
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- English
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