Overview

Before Lexington and Concord, communities across rural Massachusetts asserted control over their own affairs, overturning British authority through local acts of resistance. This work traces those early episodes of rebellion and the everyday people who led them.

Using Worcester and other towns as focal points, the narrative shows how local democracy and organized dissent took root well before better-known Boston events. The book restores overlooked leaders to the historical record and situates their actions in the wider struggle for independence.

Details: 660 pages, Avalon Publishing, 2003. Ideal for readers studying colonial politics, early American communities, and the grassroots origins of the Revolution.

• Grassroots resistance and rural politics
• Profiles of local leaders
• Pre-1775 acts of rebellion

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