American Revolution about slavery
The Confederate Flag is heritage the US Flag is hate. The “Founding Fathers" founded the US on slavery. A desire to protect the institution of slavery not “Liberty” is what drove the patriots to seek independence from the free country of the United Kingdom. (1770s UK was freer than the Victorian empire.)I was New England not the South that created racism in North America as Patricia Bradly states in her book Slavery, Propaganda, and the American Revolution, "In a Puritain worldwher symbolwas considered a godly mode of communication, the [racial] color black was itself a symbol of evil."Jefferson Davis president of the Confederate States of America once said, “Truth crushed to earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.”
Gerald Horne in his book The Counter-Revolution of 1776 says, ‘ this may have curdled the emergent idea of “American” separateness verging on "indendency” in a brew of pre-existent anti-London and anti-Negro sentiment.’ (pg.131) While the Stamp Act (stamps that had to be on all bills of sale) of the 1760s was accredited with causing the Revolution, but people do not realize that those sales were slaves. Richard archer wrote that opposing the “Stamp Act of 1765” was racist in his book “As If an Enemy’s Country:The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution.” As American History said in its article “Revolutionary Changes and Limitations: Slavery,” “The American Revolution, as an anti-tax movement, centered on Americans’ right to control their own property. In the 18th century, “property” included other human beings." (http://www.ushistory.org/us/13d.asp accessed 5/25/2019) In the book Slave Nation by Ruth (Rutgers Law School) and Alfred (Rutger University) Blumrosen, it states, “Shipyards built the cargo ship for the slave built for the slave trade and other commercial ventures in which New England’s bottoms transported not only slaves but also the products they produced.” (pg 39-40)
The New Englander John Saffin wrot this poem aroun 1700:
"Cowardly and cruel are those Black innates,
Prone to Revenge, Imp [or demon] of inteterate hate.
He that exasperates them, soon espies
Mischief and Murder in ther very eyes.
Lidibinous, Deceitful, false and Rude
The Spume Issue of Ingratitude.
The Premises consider'd, all may tell,
Now near good Joseph they are Parallel(Towner pg.48-49)
Phillis Wheatly wrote this in the New London Gazette 5/1/1772:
O mighty God! let conscience sieze the mind
Of inconsistantent man, who wish to find
A partial god to vindicate thier cause
And plead thier freedom while break its laws.(NLG 5/1/72)
The court in Britain banned slavery in England (alone) unified the thirteen colonies in revolt against UK. Lord Mansfield decided in the case of Mansfield vs. Steward:
“The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on
any reasons, moral or political; but only positive law, which
preserves its force long
after the reasons, occasion, and time
itself from whence it was created, is erased from memory: It’s
so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law.”
The first page of the first chapter of the book “Slave Nation -How Slavery United the Colonies and Sparked the American Revolution” the Blumrosens write, "On June 2, 1772, nearly a century before the slaves were freed in America, with a single decision, brought about the conditions that would end slavery in England. His decision would have monumental consequences in the American colonies leading up to the American Revolution. “ (pg. 1) the Blumrosens even explain how John Adam of Massachusetts used slavery to claim the need for independence from the British Parliament in the 5th and 6th chapter of the book (pg. 73-120) According to the New York Times article “Did a Fear of Slave Revolts Drive American Independence?” Robert G. Parkinson writes this on July 4, 2014:
‘At the same time, patriot leaders had publicized so many notices attacking the November 1775 emancipation proclamation by ...[ the Brittish government] that, by year’s end, a Philadelphia newspaper reported a striking encounter on that city’s streets. A white woman was appalled when an African-American man refused to make way for her on the sidewalk, to which he responded, “Stay, you damned white
bitch, till Lord Dunmore and his black regiment come, and then we will see who is to take the wall.”’
(https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/04/opinion/did-a-fear-of-slave-revolts-drive-american-independence.html July 4, 2016, Accessed 6/12)
This youtube bring some explanation https://youtu.be/-xGywBEqZMM
Lord Dunmore, Governor of Virginia, tried to start a slave revolt in the revolting colonies. At the end of the 1600s, the slaves of Jamaica made an uprising aging their masters. A group of Carolina slave owners stated, “there must be great caution used lest our slaves when armed might become our masters.” (Quarles p. 13-14) Simon Schama’s recent book “Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution” (2006) states, “as it did throughout the South. Instead of being cowed by the threat of a British armed liberation of the blacks, the slaveholding population mobilized to resist. Quarles states in “The Negro in the American Revolution” that the uprising was successful, ““the number of Negroes who fled to the British ran into the tens of thousands.” Abigail Adams wrote, “it always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me. Fight ourselves for what we are daily [ebbing] and plundering from those who have as good a right freedom as we have.”(PBS)On the fourth of July 2014 the New York times article “Did a Fear of Slave Revolts Drive American Independence?” writes this:
“ All the African-Americans... who supported the revolution — and lots did — were no match against
the idea that they were all ... “domestic insurrectionists.” Like the people of Huntington, Americans
since 1776 have operated time and time again on the assumption that blacks... don’t belong in this republic.
This notion comes from the very founders we revere this weekend. “
According to Donald Robinson’s book Slavery in the Structure of American, 1765-1820, Edward Ruthledge told the Continental congress that the British aided slave revolt acted greater ”to work an eternal separation between Great Britain and the colonies than any other expedient which could possibly have thought of."(pg 103)
This is best seen in the slaves of the founding fathers fighting for King George III, Christopher Klein wrote his article “The Ex-Slaves Who Fought with the British” for the History channel this:
“Among those slaves making a break for freedom were eight belonging to Peyton Randolph, speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses, and several belonging to patriot orator Patrick Henry who apparently took his famous words—“Give me liberty, or give me death!”—to heart and fled to British custody. Another runaway who found sanctuary with Dunmore was Harry Washington, who escaped from Mount Vernon while his famous master led the Continental Army.” (www.history.com/news/the-ex-slaves-who-fought-with-the-british accessed 6/20)
Harry Washington gained notoriety for fighting for Great Briton during the war.
Independence movement in the Caribbean and New Connecticut (Vermont) happened before and during the revolution of the untied 13 but in no way were part of it as they completely abolished slavery. In 1777, the republic of New Connecticut ( changing the name to Vermont of June 2 of that year) declared itself independent from both the Untied States and the UK never having slavery considering New York population was 1 in four were slaves. (Vermont is currently seeking independency https://vermontindependent.net/about-vermont-independent/)The greatest indument to keep slavery according to most historians was Haiti’s independence.
The Constitutional Convention’s focus was to persevere slavery. Jame Madison at the Constitutional Convention, “It seems now to be pretty well understood that the real difference of interest lay not between norther and southern states. The institution of slavery and its consequences formed the line of discrimination.” (Farrand)
Jefferson Davis once said, “Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.” While many people may object because of the rhetoric of “liberty,” that rhetoric was merely a copy of the current British ruling political party. Heather Gray wrote in her article “Was the American Revolution Fought to Save Slavery?” this:
“However intoxicating the heady rhetoric of ‘rights’ and ‘liberty’ emanating from Patriot orators and journalists, for the majority of farmers, merchants and townsmen in Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia [and the rest of the 13 colonies] (the vast majority of whom owned between one and five negroes), all-out war and separation now turned from an ideological flourish to a social necessity. Theirs was a revolution, first and foremost, to protect slavery.”
( https://www.counterpunch.org/2011/05/23/was-the-american-revolution-fought-to-save-slavery/ written May 23, 2011 accessed 6/8/2019)It is said that the “Boston Massacre” drove the colonies to revolution, but Douglas Leach pointed out the same thing happened in 1700 in New York with soldiers fighting colonist only ending with fatal shots. The book Slave Nation states, “It is difficult to realize that what is now called a pause [1770 to the Sommerset decision which freed the slaves in England ] looked like peace at the time.” (pg. 20)
If a officer of a slave country glorified the role of defeating a break away province as “freedom,” anyone would consider it ludicrous. In Chapter 4 ,” Ruth and Alfred Blumrosen wrote in their book Slave Nation, “American liberty could be defined as the desire to protect black slavery.” (Pg. 71) The
Marquis de Lafeyette after the United States’ revolution said this:
“I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America,
if I cold have conceived that there by I was founding
a land of slavery.”(Hirschfield)
But Jefferson Davis said this which was put on a monument:
“The North was mad and blind; it would not let us govern ourselves;
and so the war came, and now it must go on till the last man of this generation
falls in his tracks, and his children seize his musket and fight his battle, unless
you acknowledge our right to self – government. We are not fighting for slavery.
We are fighting for Independence,–and that, or extermination, we will have.””
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