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This study combines economic history, social history, microhistory, and family history to study the economic origins of Shays’s Rebellion. The life of Erastus Sergeant and the raid on Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in February of 1787—the central narrative of this thesis—reveal the broader forces that brought about Shays’s Rebellion, guided its conduct, and brought it to its conclusion. The raid on ... read moreStockbridge was one small story in the greater narrative of Shays’s Rebellion; the Rebellion itself, in turn, was a microcosm of greater economic transitions and political difficulties that were facing the state of Massachusetts and the United States as a whole during its first decade of independence. In studying these concurrent events, this thesis centers on the intersections between the Sergeant family, the origins of Shays’s Rebellion, and the evolving economy of western Massachusetts.
Advisors: Dr. James D. Rice and Dr. David J. Proctorread less
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