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

Stealhead · 07-30-11, 09:25 PM

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.

07-30-11, 09:25 PM	#12
Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	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.