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- Title
Collecting Debts: Virginia Merchants, the Continental Association, and the Meetings of November 1774.
- Authors
FICHTER, JAMES R.
- Abstract
In November 1774, as many as 500 of Virginia's merchants gathered at a meeting of merchants and signed the Continental Association, agreeing to its ban on imports from Britain, on exports to Britain, and on the consumption of British goods. By appealing to merchants' wallets, not just their hearts, Virginia Patriots induced even conservative merchants to comply.38 Delayed nonexport was understood as accommodating merchants. Yet, the predominant merchant response to the Association was driven not by planter-merchant or Patriot-Tory conflict, but by merchants' tolerance of risk. If Norton, perhaps the most well-connected merchant trading to Virginia from Britain, was to be denied a cargo (and, therefore, the ability to collect debts), no merchant could expect to be spared.
- Subjects
VIRGINIA; BOYCOTTS; MERCHANTS; BUSINESS &; politics; UNITED States economy; PRICES; DEBT
- Publication
Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, 2022, Vol 130, Issue 3, p172
- ISSN
0042-6636
- Publication type
Article