Komite korespondensi

Komite korespondensi atau komite surat-menyurat adalah sekumpulan organisasi politik Amerika Serikat sebelum Perang Revolusi Amerika yang memiliki tujuan untuk mengkoordinasikan penentangan terhadap Parlemen Britania Raya dan kemudian mendukung kemerdekaan Amerika Serikat. Dicetuskan oleh Samuel Adams, seorang Patriot dari Boston, komite-komite tersebut berjuang untuk mendirikan sebuah jaringan komunikasi rahasia melalui surat menyurat di kalangan pemimpin Patriot di Tiga Belas Koloni. Komite Koresponden Maryland merupakan kelompok penting dalam perancangan Kongres kontinental Pertama, yang diadakan di Philadelphia.

Komite Korespondensi Bostonseringkali berkumpul di Pohon Kebebasan.

Referensi

• Brown, Richard D. Revolutionary Politics in Massachusetts: The Boston Committee of Correspondence and the Towns, 1772-1774 (1976)
• Hancock, Harold B. (1973). "County committees and the growth of independence in the three lower counties on the Delaware, 1765–1776". Delaware History. 15 (4): 269–294. 
• Ketchum, Richard M. (2002). Divided Loyalties, How the American Revolution came to New York. Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 978-0-8050-6120-8. 
• Lossing, Benson John (1855). Our Countrymen: or, Brief Memoirs of Eminent Americans. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co. 
• Maier, Pauline (1978). "Early revolutionary leaders in the South and the problem of Southern distinctiveness". Dalam Jeffrey J. Crow & Larry Tise. The Southern Experience in the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-1313-3. 
• Norton, Mary Beth; Blight, David W. (2001). A People and a Nation. 1 (edisi ke-6th). Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-618-21469-3. 
• Puls, Mark (2006). Samuel Adams, father of the American Revolution. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-7582-9. 
• Ryerson, Richard A. (1978). The Revolution is Now Begun: the Radical Committees of Philadelphia, 1765–1776. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-7734-0. 
• Smith, Page (1976). A New Age Now Begins. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-059097-7. 
• Van Schreeven, William J.; Schribner, Robert L., ed. (1976). The Committees and the Second Convention, 1773–1775: a Documentary Record. Revolutionary Virginia: The Road to Independence. 2. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-0601-0. 
• Dawson, Henry (1886). Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution. H.B. Dawson. 

Sumber primer

• Revolutionary Virginia: The Road to Independence. Vol. 2, The Committees and the Second Convention, 1773-1775: A Documentary Record edited by William J. Van Schreeven, and Robert L. Schribner, (1974)

Bacaan tambahan

• Breen, T.H. (2010). American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People. 
• Maier, Pauline R. (1972). From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765–1776. 
• Maier, Pauline R. (1980). The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams. 
• Archived papers of the Committee of Correspondence, 1952-1969, at Smith College].