A year later, in 1774, the First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia and produced a "grand scheme" to abolish trade with England. "It brought to fruition a brilliantly original strategy of consumer resistance to political oppression," Breen writes, "one that had invited Americans to think of themselves as Americans even before they entertained a thought of independence."

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Cap…, loc. 1600