Abstract
Almost a quarter of a millennium ago, on April 13, 1783, the pioneering Savannah, Georgia patriot, Mordecai Sheftall, wrote to his “dear son” Sheftall about the Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolution.
“Every well-wisher to his country must feel himself happy to have lived to see this long and bloody contest brought to so happy an issue,” he wrote. “Thanks to the Almighty, it is now at an end . . . an intier [entire] new scene will open itself, and we have the world to begin againe.”
As we contemplate a new ceasefire and perhaps the end