3. Persons of Mean and Vile Condition
In 1676, seventy years after Virginia was founded, a hundred years before it supplied leadership for
the American Revolution, that colony faced a rebellion of white frontiersmen, joined by slaves and
servants, a rebellion so threatening that the governor had to flee the burning capital of Jamestown,
and England decided to send a thousand soldiers across the Atlantic, hoping to maintain order
The Diggers - Lewis H. Berens
Chapter IV from The Digger Movement In The Days Of The Commonwealth, by Lewis H. Berens. Taken from the Project Gutenberg text.
The True Levellers Standard Advanced
Submitted by Nemo on Jul 13 2006 21:18
A printable pamphlet version of The True Levellers Standard Advanced.
Presented in PDF format (80kb).
The True Levellers Standard Advanced - Gerrard Winstanley
Submitted by Nemo on Jul 13 2006 08:34
The rousing 1640s communist vision of Gerrard Winstanley & The Diggers...
Gerrard Winstanley: 17th Century Communist at Kingston - Christopher Hill
A lecture delivered at Kingston University in 1996 by the great historian of the English Civil War on the subject of Gerrard Winstanley; a founder of the Diggers, visionary, land squatter and early communist pamphleteer.
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