Richard Henry Lee, Rhetoric and Rebellion
Anita Marie Grimm Taylor
RICHARD HENRY LEE, RHETORIC AND REBELLION
A Dissertation
Presented to
the Faculty of the Graduate School
University of Missouri—Columbia
In Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree
Doctor of Philosophy
by
Anita Grimm Taylor
August 1971
Frances L. McCurdy Dissertation Supervisor
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The list of people and institutions to whom this writer is indebted exceeds by far the time and space available for acknowledgment. Special thanks are, however, due Dr. Frances McCurdy whose encouragement, advice and support throughout the doctoral program went far beyond that required of a graduate adviser; to Florissant Valley Community College for support of the research and writing efforts; and finally to Walter M. Taylor who constantly encouraged and patiently endured all the efforts required for his wife to complete the Ph.D.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. INTRODUCTION
Statement of Purpose and Method
Review of Literature
II THE LEADERSHIP ROLE
Prerequisites and Expected Performances
Environment
III RISE TO LEADERSHIP
Education and early Experience
Lessons in Leadership: Duties on Imported Slaves
Lessons in Leadership: Protesting Twopenny Act Disallowances
Leadership Exercised: Preserving Colonial Legislative Prerogatives
IV. POSITION CONSOLIDATED
Resisting the Stamp Tax
Separating the Offices of Speaker and Treasurer
V. LEADING TOWARD REBELLION
Protesting English Enactments
Defying English Enactments
Achieving Colonial Unity
VI. PERSPECTIVE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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