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AFTER CERTAINTY

Person

Thomas P. Slaughter

Historian of the Whiskey Rebellion as frontier conflict with federal authority.

Why this matters

Slaughter shows early American legitimacy tested by tax, force, and local refusal.

Focus in observatory

Works

book

The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution

Slaughter, Thomas P. *The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution*. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

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