Frontier Rebels, Patrick Spero
Frontier Rebels, Patrick Spero
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Frontier Rebels
The Fight for Independence in the American West, 1765-1776

Author: Patrick Spero

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Unabridged: 6 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/20/2018

Synopsis

In Frontier Rebels, historian Patrick Spero tells the story of the Black Boys, a band of rebels whose protests ignited the American Revolution. In 1765, as the Stamp Act riled eastern seaports, frontiersmen clashed with the British Empire over another issue: Indian relations. When British officials launched a risky diplomatic expedition into the American interior to open trade with the Indian warrior Pontiac, the Black Boys formed to stop it. Distrustful of Native neighbors and suspicious of imperial aims, the Black Boys led an uprising that threatened the future of Britain's empire. Clashing with unscrupulous traders, daring diplomats, Native warriors, and imperious British officials, the Black Boys evolved into an organized political movement that resisted the Crown years before the Declaration of Independence. A fast-paced read examining an overlooked conflict, Frontier Rebels brings to life a forgotten cast of characters and sheds new light on the origins of American Independence.

About Patrick Spero

Patrick Spero is the librarian of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, the oldest learned society in the United States, and the author of Frontier Country: The Politics of War in Early Pennsylvania. He previously taught history at Williams College.

Reviews

Goodreads review by John on November 28, 2022

I picked this up because I was looking for a book that covered similar ground to "Peaceable Kingdom Lost" but that I might actually be able to assign to undergrads, and this absolutely fits the bill. It actually does me one better, too, because Spero specifically makes an argument that this story fi......more

Goodreads review by Chris on January 30, 2019

"What happened net set the course for the rest of the Black Boys' Rebellion and helped transform a single action by a vigilante group into a movement that would shake the foundations of the British Empire." (p.62) Yeah, this book was disappointing. It's main fault: as evidenced by the quote above, it......more

Goodreads review by Charles on October 23, 2018

The author covers a lesser known aspect of the American Revolution, the "Black Boys" rebellion in Western Pennsylvania in the later 1760's. The name came from the rebellious frontiersmens' practice of painting their faces black as a means of concealing their identities. In the aftermath of the French......more

Goodreads review by Stevan on May 21, 2021

This was a slog, but some interesting history of the Pennsylvania western frontier and the Black Boys rebellion prior to the Revolutionary War. I had to force myself to continue reading as it did succeed in providing the frontier (rural native-facing colonists) view of the empire, native americans a......more

Goodreads review by Tony on December 30, 2018

A fascinating historical tale that relates to a story seldom heard as to the role of the American frontier (Western Pennsylvania) in the 1760s-70s in the early days in the fight for independence. We all know the story of Boston and the brewing revolution there, but the story of the frontiersmen and......more

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