In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion

by Robert A. Gross (Editor)

In January 1787 Daniel Shays, a hero of the American Revolution, and an army of farmers, enraged by the program of heavy taxes imposed by the state government in Boston to pay the costs of the Revolutionary War, launched an attack on the federal arsenal at Springfield, Massachusetts. The uprising was easily suppressed, but to this day debate still rages over Shay's Rebellion, its relevance to the American Revolution, and its influence on the formation of the United States Constitution.

Genres: American Revolution

418 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1992

About the author

A specialist in the social and cultural history of the United States, from the colonial era through the nineteenth century, Robert Alan Gross is an emeritus faculty member at the University of Connecticut.