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...dependence. Guided by the principle of mercantilism, whose chief objective is the enrichment of the mother country at the expense of its colonies, Britain's leaders tried to make America serve as the Empire's farm, forest and mine, while Britain was to be its factory, financier and protector. Parliament's decrees that certain American exports could be shipped only to or through Britain cut into the profit on such products as tobacco, America's No. 1 export (102 million pounds last year). When colonial hat and wool manufacturers started to compete with English factories, Parliament likewise restricted American...
Wedgwood's business expanded so quickly that within ten years he had built a new factory (cost: more than £3,000), opened a London showroom, and started work on a whole village for his workers, to be named Etruria. As a prominent businessman, Wedgwood repeatedly urged Parliament to build new highways and canals to aid commerce. As a man who remembered his own lack of education he contributed toward two free schools for the poor...
...Midlands of England, Josiah Wedgwood wanted a canal to connect the Trent and Mersey rivers. So he pushed the necessary legislation through Parliament, contributed £1,000 to the cost of the project, and devoted more than ten years to getting it finished. It will open next year, a 93-mile marvel that extends through 75 locks and will reduce transportation costs from 10 pence a ton-mile to 1½ pence...
...also unpopular in many working-class towns. Lots of people have relatives in America, and they feel as abused as the Colonists by King and Parliament. Army recruiters are lucky if they escape unharmed in some places. In one town the whole recruiting party was severely beaten and its drum was broken to bits; several other towns have agreed not to send even a single man into service. One officer writes about the "invincible dislike of all ranks of people to the American service." John Wesley, the Methodist leader, who is not himself pro-American, has written to a friend...
Since the fastest ships still take a month or more to cross the Atlantic, the British obviously do not yet know about the Declaration of Independence. Just after Parliament recessed on May 23, however, TIME'S London correspondent assessed the mood of the kingdom and found a mixture of Tory arrogance and Whig protest that can only be strengthened by the Declaration. His report...