Helps you meet Quincy as a rising member of the Massachusetts bar and a member of the Boston Committee of Correspondence, making a tour of the southern colonies to assess the depth of commitment to the patriot cause there. This work shows how Quincy was dazzled by the opulence and sophistication of late-eighteenth-century Charleston society.
Providing readers with the unusual opportunity to enter into theextraordinary mind of a patriot in the period immediately preceding the Revolution, the Portrait of a Patriot series presents the major papers of the Boston lawyer andpatriot penman Josiah Quincy Jr. (1744-1775). In this, the third of five volumes, wemeet Quincy as a rising member of the Massachusetts bar and a member of the BostonCommittee of Correspondence, making a tour of the Southern colonies to assess thedepth of commitment to the patriot cause there. While cautious of the politicalleanings of his hosts, Quincy was clearly dazzled by the opulence and sophisticationof late-eighteenth-century Charleston society. As he traveled northward, hecontinued to record candid observations on Southern manners, womenfolk, and theinstitution of slavery in his journal, thus creating a unique portrait of Americansociety on the eve of the American Revolution.
