non-importation

In 1767, shortly after Parliament passed the Townshend Act increasing duties on manufactured goods, the colonies passed non-importation resolutions.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2009

This measure was introduced to meet the labour short-fall created by the non-importation of slaves.

Editorial 2001

After Congress disbanded, John Adams took Patrick Henry aside and told him he thought all their “resolves, declarations of rights, enumeration of wrongs, petitions, remonstrances, and addresses, associations, and non-importation agreements . . . would be but waste paper to the government in England.”

Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

As the committeemen soon realized that “it would be futile to try to catch violators of non-importation red-handed”—and perhaps guided, by what one historian calls “the Manichaean language” of Congress about “enemies” and “foes to the rights of British America”—they decided to draw up lists of likely offenders.

Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

After Congress disbanded, John Adams took Patrick Henry aside and told him he thought all their “resolves, declarations of rights, enumeration of wrongs, petitions, remonstrances, and addresses, associations, and non-importation agreements . . . would be but waste paper to the government in England.”

Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

As the committeemen soon realized that “it would be futile to try to catch violators of non-importation red-handed”—and perhaps guided, by what one historian calls “the Manichaean language” of Congress about “enemies” and “foes to the rights of British America”—they decided to draw up lists of likely offenders.

Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

This measure was introduced to meet the labour short-fall created by the non-importation of slaves.

The Historical Injustice 1994

Even the most enthusiastic had to admit that if the non-importation agreement was to be kept alive, it had to be revised.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

No other legislation of large importance was considered; but most of the men who sat by day as Burgesses discussed by night as “Associators” the future of the non-importation agreement.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

Washington was for the sternest of non-importation agreements—“I could wish it to be ten times as strict,” he said later, but he felt that a covenant which did not command support of the merchants and supply the minimum requirements of planters would fail.

Washington Richard Harwell 1968