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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 20 Nov 2020

      interesting things I learned about the American revolution from Durant's summary of the war from Britain's perspective last night

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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 20 Nov 2020

      1. the extent of opposition to the war in parliament was remarkable, many luminaries spoke forcefully and eloquently against it on both practical and principled grounds at least in the political class britain was deeply conflicted

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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 20 Nov 2020

      2. king george iii was not conflicted in the least, he was Mad as hell the son of a bitch wanted to keep fighting after /Yorktown/ and had to be dragged off kicking and screaming

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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 20 Nov 2020

      3. the american alliance with France is well known, and Spain's declaration of war against England as well however, I had /not/ known that Denmark, Sweden, and Russia adopted a hostile neutrality against England when the royal navy started aggressively searching ships

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    5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 20 Nov 2020

      4. the population of Britain was something like 6M at that point; the American colonies, 1M not as lopsided a conflict as i had thought in this sense can you imagine if Britain had retained the colonies? we would have swallowed her whole

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 20 Nov 2020

      5. didn't catch the details but at one point in the run-up to the war South Carolina wanted to limit slave imports and Britain overruled them because it was far too lucrative to give up eat shit @nhannahjones

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        2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 20 Nov 2020

          re: (1), here's a speech from Pitt--worth reading to get a sense of the anti-war faction's disposition https://www.bartleby.com/268/3/24.html 

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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 20 Nov 2020

          Burke's speech is also excellent his section on the American temperament and especially religious disposition relative to England is extremely interesting and worth weighing in These Timeshttps://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Burke%27s_Speech_on_Conciliation_with_America/Speech …

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        4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 20 Nov 2020

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          possible correction on population huuuhhttps://twitter.com/thehorsepundit/status/1329807596425981955?s=19 …

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          Most estimates, iirc, put both populations at roughly 2 million higher than these figures; 8 million for Britain and 2.5-3 million for the colonies.
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        1. Look up Knuffelberen‏ @poiThePoi 20 Nov 2020
          Replying to @eigenrobot @nhannahjones

          Isn't this because then a bunch of plantations doing terrible agriculture that destroyed the soil could flip into being a bunch of plantations selling on slaves?

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        1. 𝔻𝕦𝕩 𝔹𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕣𝕦𝕞  ⚔️ 𝔸𝕟𝕘𝕝𝕠-𝕊𝕒𝕩𝕠𝕟‏ @Face_Almighty44 20 Nov 2020
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          I'm pretty sure there was a calculus on this that increased the value of existing slaves and made large plantations more competitive. Not sure how that relates to the rest of the (caribbean) empire however. People don't realize that slaves were fantastically expensive by 1861.

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        2. Password is Taco‏ @pw_is_taco1 20 Nov 2020
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          During the Revolution, natives & Loyalists actually raided Patriot settlements & sold their captives as slaves to the Canadians Slavery in Canada wasnt outlawed until after the Rev (it was banned specifically to contrast w/ US), & it really pissed off the major landholders there

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        3. Password is Taco‏ @pw_is_taco1 20 Nov 2020
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          (from "The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels & Indian Allies" by Alan Taylor)

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        1. Mauv‏ @ThatsMauvelous 20 Nov 2020
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          SC passed the law in question in 1760. When that law was disallowed by the overlords across the pond, SC tried again in 1764, this time with a punitive import tax instead of a ban. This apparently worked. (The motive was fear of rebellion, I think) https://www.gutenberg.org/files/17700/17700-h/17700-h.htm#Chapter_II …

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        1. James‏ @ztnra 20 Nov 2020
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          This is just NIMBY but not import more black youth. Keeps prices high

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