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What Was It like to Be Alive in Colonial America in 1775, on the Eve of the Revolutionary War?
Part 1: An Introduction to a New Series
In 1775, people traveled only as fast as they could walk, ride a horse, or sail a boat. A sixty-mile drive today that would take an hour would take two to four days in 1775. Travel by sailing ship from Charleston to Boston might take a month, while travel from Charleston to Britain might take two months or more. And news and the mail moved only as fast as that slow travel allowed.
