Adams and Jefferson, A Revolutionary Dialogue, A Revolutionary Dialogue

Author

Peterson; Merrill

Year

1976

Publisher

University of Georgia Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-0-82035-904-5

Link

Last Update

05-Jan-2026

Keywords

History ; Political Science ; American Studies

Description

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson first met in june 1775 at the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. The Battle of Bunker Hill had just been fought in Adams’ Boston. Amidst martial pomp and fanfare Congress dispatched General George Washington to take command of the continental forces rallying near there. Catching the sense of Congress, Jefferson wrote to friends in Virginia that “the war is now heartily entered into, without a prospect of accommodation but thro’ the effectual interposition of arms.”¹ The war had begun. Incipient revolutionary governments were in being in both Massachusetts and Virginia. But whether American independence would...