Annapolis: 1774: A Colony in Crisis
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ISBN13: 9798175203357
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 17 2026
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 17 2026
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Set against the tense, tobacco-rich backdrop of 1774 colonial Annapolis, Annapolis: 1774: A Colony in Crisis explores the agonizing disintegration of civil society and familial bonds as the American Revolution takes root. The narrative centers on Magistrate Arthur Grayson, an unyielding jurist who views the law as the sole barrier against total anarchy, and his idealistic son, Gideon, who acts as a clerk drawn deeply into the radical fires of the emerging Committee of Observation. As Parliament enacts the Coercive Acts and closes the port of Boston, the traditional architecture of royal governance and proprietary custom fractures completely. Caught in the personal crossfire is Elizabeth Grayson, fighting desperately from her Francis Street parlor to preserve her family's heritage and unity against a rising tide of political fanaticism. Meanwhile, pragmatic figures like Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer quietly maneuver to seize administrative control before civil chaos consumes the province, leaving father and son on opposite sides of a historic, unbridgeable divide.
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