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Dear Papa, Dear Charley: The Peregrinations of a Revolutionary Aristocrat, as Told by Charles Carroll of Carrollton and His Father, Charles Carroll of

Dear Papa, Dear Charley: The Peregrinations of a Revolutionary Aristocrat, as Told by Charles Carroll of Carrollton and His Father, Charles Carroll of

Hoffman, Ronald
Mason, Sally D.
Darcy, Eleanor S.

Paperback

Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo, Book 1

Political BiographiesFiction AnthologiesColonial Period (1600-1775)

ISBN10: 1469628430
ISBN13: 9781469628431
Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
Published: Oct 30 2015
Pages: 522
Weight: 1.76
Height: 1.17 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This compelling collection of correspondence between a father and a son documents the history of eighteenth-century America through the intimate story of a family and the journey from boyhood to political prominence of its most illustrious member, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the only Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Beginning in the late 1740s, when Papa (Charles Carroll of Annapolis) sent Charley (Charles Carroll of Carrollton) away from his native Maryland to be educated in Europe, the letters present a new perspective on colonial and Revolutionary America as the lived experience of Roman Catholics, whose defiant adherence to their faith denied them the civil rights and guarantees -- including the right to hold office and to vote -- that their Protestant counterparts enjoyed. This context accentuates the drama of Charley's rise to power during the Revolution, the necessity of the political and economic compromises he felt compelled to make, and the ultimately tragic personal price exacted by his success. Bringing the Carroll's public and private lives sharply into focus, these volumes present the past in its fullest human dimensions.

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