Name: Pawn Stars: Extremely Rare Book from the 1774 Continental Congress (Season 16) | History
Uploaded: 2020-03-19T18:51:12.000Z
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It's the extracts from the votes and proceedings of the American

This is like the pre-Declaration of Independence.

Great Britain was really getting on our nerves.

This is basically where they're complaining to Great Britain

GARY: I'm here to sell a pre-Revolutionary document

I purchase estates and storage units at auction,

This document happened to go on the backburner

RICK: This is a pretty amazing thing you have here.

At this point, 1774, we were second-class citizens

living in these colonies across the ocean.

They were just basically you'll do what you're told.

This was a condensed version of what they did

There was a lot of resolutions and everything

else we were sending to England saying, hey,

live our lives just like normal British citizens.

like, quit being unreasonable, which they didn't do.

Do you know if this is the first edition?

Things like this get really, really technical--

So let me call somebody up to take a look

RICK: I'm totally fine with an expert coming in.

I'm eager to know what the book is worth.

important documents from the American Revolution, right?

It's like the early Declaration of Independence, like--

It's like we're just telling Great Britain off.

where we're still trying to come to some sort of compromise.

You have the First Continental Congress which

when representatives from the colonies get together

and they say, all right, we've got to do something about all

are like taxes or closing the port in Boston

or quartering soldiers in our homes, that type of situation.

A lot of the problems were happening in Massachusetts,

And for a long time other colonies were like,

And so for a long time there wasn't unity.

And the thing that's so important about this is this

is the first time you have the colonies coming together united

So the united in United States starts here.

points of what the Continental Congress was discussing.

and then immediately they want it spread as much as possible

Something like this wasn't meant to last.

and spread really quickly and then, like, thrown away.

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Pawn Stars: Extremely Rare Book from the 1774 Continental Congress (Season 16) | History

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