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In the words of historian Bailyn, they had worked "a substantial alteration in the order of society as it was known" in 1775. They had unloosened a "contagion of liberty" which could not be restrained.
But that was a long way off. June-July 1776 was the beginning of a great experiment, not the finished product. Bernard Bailyn, Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, Harvard University Press, 1962, chapter 4. The British-Americans: The Virginia Loyalists
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