"Slavery caused the Revolution" is precisely as defensible as "slavery didn't cause the Civil War."
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Now, the world is complicated. Slavery was part of colonial society, & part of the wealth of its leaders. So, sure, you can't hermetically seal the two from each other. Doubtless some Patriots worried what Britain could do about that, & were outraged at Dunsmore later on.
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But the *worst* kind of history is for professional historians to gather small, true bits of the record & blow them up to obscure the larger picture of what actually happened.
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Further, you are more likely to find someone to advocate for the other side if there is a patron out there waving money around in search of someone who supports a position.
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Like I said, your piece completely ignores the fact that academic historians have taken a wide range of positions on the
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Sure, but a “new” view is initially a minority view. Let things stew a bit before getting on one’s high horse.
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Correct, we all know Africans came here for the great job opportunities and religious freedom. The landed gentry in the colonies willingly freed any humans held in bondage, in support of the concept of all men being equal. It was in all the papers.
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It’s unquantifiable whether the country was consciously founded on slavery, or the Constitution was consciously trying to dissuade it. What we can be sure of is that slavery existed in 1619 and that it played an integral part in building the infrastructure and economy of the US.
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