American "Revolution"? Fought for by aristocrats and lead to little major political change. Boston "Massacre"? Five people dead, less than shootings today. British "tyranny" upon elite American colonists? A tax exclusively on tea, not literal genocide like they did to India and others

    • honeynut
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      1 year ago

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      • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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        4 years ago

        That book absolutely blew my mind, and I can now never look at the foundation of America in the same way. Cursed country from the start, literally founded on avoiding the abolition of slavery. :amerikkka:

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Also there was a ruling in England that set a precedent that slavery didn’t have a legal basis a few years before it all popped off - slaveowners knew which direction the wind was blowing there.

      Somerset v Stewart is probably what you're talking about.

    • Woly [any]
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      4 years ago

      Do you think the world would be better or worse off today if the colonies hadn't revolted in 1776?

    • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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      4 years ago

      They also coveted fertile indigenous lands like the Mississippi Delta. The only thing standing between them turning the plantation system into a full blown empire was British policy forbidding settlement beyond the Appalachians. The Revolution fixed that problem.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      4 years ago

      Dunmore's Proclamation was what brought guys like Washington, Madison, Jefferson, and Patrick Henry into the American Revolution. The Brits were openly challenging their position as slave-owners.