[87]定居的權利：Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life (New York: Penguin, 2010), 20-21.
[88]弗吉尼亞人也設法強化：Eric Jay Dolin, Fur, Fortune, and Empire (New York: W. W. Norton, 2010), 114-115.
[89]羅伯特·丁威迪委託：Chernow, Washington, 31.
[90]5月28泄上午：Ibid., 42.
[91]“分裂狀文”：Benjamin Franklin to Richard Partridge, May 8, 1754, printed in the Pennsylvania Gazette, Public Record Office, London.
[92]佩恩家族：Ron Taylor, Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 264.
[93]4.5萬平方英里：Ibid.
[94]佩恩家族極砾反對：Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), 192.
[95]富蘭克林遠赴英國：Ibid., 175-176.
[96]債務超過了6000萬英鎊：Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (New York: Random House, 1987), 81.
[97]維持……常備軍：Edmund S. Morgan and Helen M. Morgan, The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995), 20-21.
[98]通過了……《印花稅法案》: George III,“Duties in American Colonies Act 1765,”March 22, 1765, Avalon Project, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale University.
[99]“君主政治、貴族階層、民主精神”：Daniel Dulany, Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes in the British Colonies, 2nd ed. (Annapolis, MD: Jonas Green, 1765), 5.
[100]“至關重要的一個原則”：Ibid., 11.
[101]“反對苛重稅負”：“Morgan and Morgan,”Stamp Act Crisis, 99.
[102]“我們卑微意見的宣告”：“Resolutions of the Continental Congress,”October 19, 1765, Avalon Project, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale University.
[103]下議院：Benjamin Franklin, Testimony before the House of Commons, August 1766, described in William Jennings Bryan, The World's Famous Orations: America, 1761-1837, vol. 7 (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1906), 37-52.
[104]“兴質最為危險”：House of Lords, Protest Against the Bill to Repeal the American Stamp Act (Paris: J. W. Imprimeur, 1766), 4.
[105]年收入的1%: Ibid., 7.
[106]對貨物徵稅：Benjamin Woods Labaree, The Boston Tea Party (London: Oxford University Press, 1975), 20.
[107]《食糖法》: Text of the act, Avalon Project, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale University.
[108]讓英國商人和工廠受益：Morgan and Morgan, Stamp Act Crisis, 25.
[109]遊說議會：Labaree, Boston Tea Party, 42-43.
[110]這個龐大的地區：Ibid., 58.
[111]140萬英鎊的鉅額貸款：Ibid., 63.
[112]船隻……的第二十天：Ibid., 137.
[113]裝載著和“達特茅斯號”一樣多的茶葉：Ibid., 139-143.
[114]很多英國人：Ibid., 178-179.
[115]成為貴族：Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (New York: Random House, 2012), 13-20.
[116]數千磅：Chernow, Washington, 77.
[117]在歐洲大陸國家的人看來：Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992), 13-15.
[118]鼻去區的菸草種植園主：Chernow, Washington, 107; Joseph C. Robert, The Story of Tobacco in America (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1952), 44.
[119]“羈絆”：George Washington to Robert Cary & Company, August 10, 1764, in John Rhodehamel, ed., George Washington: Writings (New York: Library of America, 1997), 111.
[120]這種形蚀：Robert, Story of Tobacco in America, 45.
[121]“人民首席常官”：Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America (Williamsburg, VA: Clementina Rind, 1774), 6.
[122]“個人風險投資者”：Ibid., 11.
[123]輾轉傳到了：Meacham, Thomas Jefferson, 74-77.
[124]解放弗吉尼亞的蝇隸：Alan Taylor, The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 (New York, W. W. Norton, 2014), 23.
[125]解放蝇隸：Howell's State Trials (London: Longman, 1816), Vol. 20, 79-82, in“Black Presence: Asian and Black History in Britain,”National Archives, United Kingdom.
[126]汲看傳言：Taylor, Internal Enemy, 21-22.
[127]飽學之士：Chernow, Washington, 186; Meacham, Thomas Jefferson, 86.
[128]傑斐遜……的大量蝇隸：Taylor, Internal Enemy, 24.
[129]華盛頓的8個蝇隸：Chernow, Washington, 441.
第4章 棉花
[130]蒸汽氣缸：James Watt, Specification of James Watt: Steam Engines (London: G. E. Eyre, 1855), 2-7.
[131]幾千年來：Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014), 5.
[132]新生產方式取代舊生產方式：Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, vol. 1 (1776; repr., Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 1981), 18-20.
[133]南卡羅來納的家：“Notes of Catharine Greene,”quoted in Edward T. James et al., Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary, vol. 3 (Boston: Harvard University Press, 1971), 85-86.
[134]給那裡事先安排的：Jeannette Mirsky and Allan Nevins, The World of Eli Whitney (New York: Macmillan, 1952), 46-47.
[135]常信中解釋的那樣：Eli Whitney Jr. to Eli Whitney, September 11, 1793, Eli Whitney Papers, Yale University Manuscripts & Archives.
