Money Does Not Exist: The American Revolution was not about Representation—It was about Money!

Money does not exist. Only its value does. Go to the bank and ask to see the $1,000 in your checking account. You will be told those dollars don’t exist. But that $1,000 of value will buy beer, apples, spaghetti, and a can of beans — as long as it stays close to home. The moment it leaves, something drains away with it. Bacchus Hannibal knows this. He arrived in Boston from the sugar cane fields, carrying nightmares he will never speak of, and built a free life one hemp contract at a time. He spends his wages in Boston shops and watches his money circulate — building the city, feeding the economy, staying where it belongs. Three hundred men were not at work the night they faced British soldiers on King Street. They were not at work because those soldiers were taking their jobs at half the wage. Every tax shilling shipped to England was a shilling not spent on Boston streets. Peter Breaux arrived from Nova Scotia stripped of everything by a single British signature. He bought a broken wagon and showed up in the rain. Jennifer Ellery turned an apprenticeship into a partnership and warned her fellow women: we are determined to foment a rebellion. Samoset sold maple sugar in a market built on the slavery of his ancestors and said what no pamphleteer would print. Money Does Not Exist tells the story of the American Revolution through thirty-eight voices across a decade of rising fury. The argument is the same one being made today in the language of crypto, fiat, and debt. History is not a tool. It is the study of the future. And the future looks familiar.

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Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.)  An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi

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