Talking to Ben Franklin and other reasonable people at the time might do this
FWIW, after reading his biography, I get the impression that Franklin was very much under pressure from Bostonians who were really mad at the British, and could not have been less pro-revolution without being hated and discredited. I think what you actually want is to somehow prevent the Boston ‘massacre’ or similar.
Darn. Hmm I guess another possibility is to see if ~300 years of advances in propaganda social technology would mean someone from our timeline is much more persuasive than 1700s people, and, after some pre-time travel reading and marketing/rhetoric classes, try to write polemical newsletters directly (I’m unfortunately handicapped by being the wrong ethnicity so I need someone else to be my mouthpiece if I do this).
Preventing specific pivotal moments (like assassinations or Boston ‘massacre’) seems to rely on a very narrow theory of change, though maybe it’s enough?
FWIW, after reading his biography, I get the impression that Franklin was very much under pressure from Bostonians who were really mad at the British, and could not have been less pro-revolution without being hated and discredited. I think what you actually want is to somehow prevent the Boston ‘massacre’ or similar.
Darn. Hmm I guess another possibility is to see if ~300 years of advances in propaganda social technology would mean someone from our timeline is much more persuasive than 1700s people, and, after some pre-time travel reading and marketing/rhetoric classes, try to write polemical newsletters directly (I’m unfortunately handicapped by being the wrong ethnicity so I need someone else to be my mouthpiece if I do this).
Preventing specific pivotal moments (like assassinations or Boston ‘massacre’) seems to rely on a very narrow theory of change, though maybe it’s enough?