Subject:
Shay's Rebellion, The Real History Not Taught In Schools
From:
jackservant@msn.com To:
georgia_independence@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005
Shays Fought the
Revolution's Final Battle, and We Lost
Shay’s Rebellion by George F. Smith
gfs543@bellsouth.net
Leonard L. Richards,
a history professor at UMass–Amherst,
has written a groundbreaking book about Shays’ Rebellion, the event that sparked the
Constitutional Convention. Leonard
L. Richard portrays the Shaysites as Regulators in the spirit of the Revolution fighting a plundering corrupt
state. [3]
Shays’ Rebellion is
usually described as a revolt of poor,
backcountry farmers in western Massachusetts during the fall and winter of 1786 – 1787. During
the Revolutionary War, the
individual states and Congress had issued fiduciary notes to finance U.S. military operations.
Fiduciary notes were paper money
the government promised to redeem in coin at some point in the future. When the future arrived in the 1780s,
the holders of these notes
demanded redemption, and the states,
including Massachusetts, were raising taxes to pay them off.