Quote (Santara @ Nov 2 2022 07:10am)
Where in the fuck do you come up with this cockamamie bullshit?
1775, the colonials rebelled, and support for the rebellion was strongest in the northern colonies, where slavery was far less prevalent.
1833, Britain ends slavery.
Nice try, but the whole edifice of slavery had been crumbling for decades, and every little act of chipping away at it made the slavemasters in the colonies more frightened of losing their property, more conscious of the tide of history coming at them. Revolts in the Caribbean, Somerset v Stewart in 1773 (72? cba to look), poisonings and collusions with other empires of the time increasing. When Dunmore issued his proclamation in late 1775, the colonists found their rallying cry and it was a short road from there to fullscale rebellion and war with Britain.
It was primarily about slavery. No abolitionist moves by Britain, no 1776 full stop.
Edit: if you want a book, Gerald Horne's
Counter Revolution of 1776.
This post was edited by kusotarre1 on Nov 2 2022 11:19am