What's the AMERICAN take on the revolutionary war (regarding slaves)

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Lord Justice

On my part I shall return favour to tell you the numbers of slaves that ran was aimed at the war period, though I cannot be 100 percent certain.

Fair enough. Just because I haven't seen that statistic doesn't make it not so. I don't have an answer though.

4) With regard to your last in my quote! I also asked for individual opinions, stated in my last - original post.

I tend to not have opinions where I don't have facts. My personal feeling? I hate the idea of any human being held in bondage by another. My great-grandfather fought for the South during the Civil War, and his father owned slaves. It's not something I'm proud of, but it's something I accept, since it's all history now.

[Lord Justice]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

My personal feeling? I hate the idea of any human being held in bondage by another. My great-grandfather fought for the South during the Civil War, and his father owned slaves. It's not something I'm proud of, but it's something I accept, since it's all history now.

Steve, be assured ( I hope that assurance is needless) that what diminishes your happiness equally Impairs mine. I do not agree with slavery.

[Jimbuna]

Slavery was and is barbaric...simple fact IMHO.

[Growler]

We must remember to exercise caution when viewing history, as the mores of social and political acceptability change frequently over intervening years. As proof, I submit the Blitz, and the subsequent Allied bombing campaigns of 1940-1945, wherein civilian casualties were expected, versus the feelings around civilian casualties in today's aerial bombing strikes.

While it is abhorrent to us in the West today that persons be held against their will by some form of subjugation, slavery as a form of punishment or control has existed for most of human history.

[Stealhead]

Well do not forget that obviously there had been slavery occurring while the
the US where still colonies answering to the King and paying taxes to the King therefore by default the King was supporting slavery it was obviously known that slavery was occurring on the many plantations that where paying taxes(before they decided to no longer pay them that is).

If England would have won the war I highly suspect that they would not have done anything about slavery not immediately anyway.Also at the Boston Massacre at least one freed black man was killed by British fire so I suspect that most slaves and freed men would either have fled and sided with neither.

By and large the idea of slavery was something that was acceptable to a portion of the population many of these people felt that they where actually improving the slaves lives because they where "savages" before. (not sure how being a slave makes your life better)

Obviously there where people who did not agree with slavery during the Revolutionary War and it took many years until the 1850s really that the Abolitionist movement was powerful enough to actually have effect.

EDIT: why is the site nerfing my paragraphs?That is not how I typed them in.

[Lord Justice]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

If England would have won the war I highly suspect that they would not have done anything about slavery not immediately anyway.Also at the Boston Massacre at least one freed black man was killed by British fire

I see 2 Bettys here in your 1st 4, I hold fourth sensibly. 1) Good point I am inclined to agree. 2) The (freed) black man you put was Crispus Attucks the martyr of the revolution. I must ask was he really (freed)?? and black??

Bostonians, accepted him as mixed race. Indians, as Wampanoag. Anti slavery movement, as Black. Historians = *Free* man or Escaped slave.