The American Revolution was the first great anticolonialist movement. It was about political freedom. But in the minds of its most hard-line revolutionaries, the New England radicals, the central expression of that freedom was the ability to make their own decisions about their own economy.

— Mark Kurlansky Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World (1997)

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