TY - BOOK AU - Ragosta,John A. TI - Wellspring of liberty: how Virginia's religious dissenters helped win the American Revolution and secured religious liberty SN - 9780199866779 (ebook) : AV - F230 U1 - 975.502 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York, Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Church and state KW - Virginia KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Dissenters, Religious KW - Freedom of religion KW - Revolution, 1775-1783 KW - Politics and government KW - 1775-1783 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Virginia's dissenters, primarily Presbyterians and Baptists demanded religious liberty in return for supporting the American Revolution. The resulting negotiations not only brought Virginia, and America, religious freedom, but politicized dissenters and republicanized the polity UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195388060.001.0001 ER -