695994 Letter from the General Congress at Philadelphia (describes American grievances), 5th September 1774 (litho) by American School, (18th century); 45.4x30.2 cm; Gilder Lehrman Collection, New York, USA; (add.info.: A long broadside, printed in four columns and addressed to the people of Great Britain. The broadside says: "Know then, that we consider, and do insist that we are, and ought to be, free as our fellow subjects in Britain, and that no power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent." Mentions numerous rights, including trial by jury. Someone has circled misspellings (or variations?) in pencil. (Sothebys suggested that this broadside was printed in Bristol, England. Apparently unrecorded.) Leaders of the patriot cause repeatedly argued that imperial policies would literally make the colonists slaves of the British. As the historian Bernard Bailyn has demonstrated, the colonists\' talk of being enslaved was not hyperbole or lurid rhetoric; it expressed a genuine fear of being subjected to "the arbitrary will and pleasure of another." ); 穢 Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History ; American, out of copyright.