Preferred Name

Jay Feyerabend

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Date of Graduation

5-6-2021

Semester of Graduation

Spring

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Department of History

Advisor(s)

Rebecca Brannon

Kevin Hardwick

William Van Norman

Abstract

The Merchants and sailors of the small port town of Stonington, Connecticut capitalized on the chaos of the American Revolution by transforming their town into a prosperous hub of privateering and trade while the larger neighbor city of New York was occupied by British forces. The study of the experience of port towns in the American Revolution broadly has overshadowed the diverse experiences of different port towns and largely neglected the war-time relationship between smaller ports and their larger neighbors. By highlighting the financial success of Stonington and illustrating its context within the larger Atlantic World, this work highlights the ways individual actors, who were often motivated by their own financial well-being, were able to serve an important strategic and financial role in the American War effort as well as trace the regions slow return to the pre-war order in the decade after the war.

Included in

History Commons

Share

COinS
 
 

To view the content in your browser, please download Adobe Reader or, alternately,
you may Download the file to your hard drive.

NOTE: The latest versions of Adobe Reader do not support viewing PDF files within Firefox on Mac OS and if you are using a modern (Intel) Mac, there is no official plugin for viewing PDF files within the browser window.