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Tories (Loyalists)

“I am forced to get my living by the labour of my

hand; and the sweat of my brow, as most of you

are and obliged to go thro’ good report and evil

report, for bitter bread, earned under the frowns

of some who have no natural or divine right to

be above me, and entirely owe their grandeur and

honor to grinding the faces of the poor…”

- James Otis

“A few persons in power “ were promoting political projects “for keeping the people poor in order to make them humble.”

- Boston Gazette, 1763

“He seduced the vulgar and most ignorant people to believe…Next he charges the Governour as neglegent and wicked, treacherous and incapable, the Lawes as unjust and oppressive and cryes up absolute necessity of redress.”

- Royal Commission Report on Bacon’s

Rebellion, late 1670s