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To: jeffersondem
User jeffersondem said: (post 76) "One of the reasons that the 13 slave states rebelled was because the King was threatening to “free the slaves.""

User jeffersondem later said: "See grievance 27, your link. “He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions.”"

I'm looking for the "free the slaves" part. I don't see it. If you mean the domestic insurrections part, no, that's not what that is referring to. The British had to be extremely careful about what promises they made because Loyalist slave owners needed to be taken care of. And yes, hurting loyalist slave interests would've hurt the Crown because of their mercantilist tax generating schemes.

The incitement of domestic insurrections was purely revenge based. Kill your slave masters for enslaving you. Anyone held as a slave seeking freedom (only patriot slave owners, mind you) was encouraged to sneak away in the night and go join the British military.

"The British mobilization of slaves was a double-edged sword. Dunmore had called only on the slaves of patriots to join his troops. There was, however, the danger that the slaves of loyalists would do the same."

War in an Age of Revolution, 1775-1815

You are putting your anti-Americanism on display again - your foolhardy rush to blame everything everywhere slavery related all on the United States completely left you blind to the issue of loyalist slave owning.

Whoops.

Which brings us all the way back to the beginning - the only place you found abolitionism (where it was to be found) was in the Patriot side. There was none of it on the loyalist side. The Brit of the 1700s did not issue blanket proclamations such as that. They were a slave empire - Would it be a complete surprise to you if I were to inform you that Britain had slavery in various parts of the Caribbean?

Sadly, I think that's news to you. All you really seem to be good at is trolling. Why are you still here?

89 posted on 08/12/2023 4:19:26 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (The historians must be stopped. They're destroying everything.)
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“I'm looking for the “free the slaves” part. I don't see it.”

Grievance 27 was part of your link; and that is linked to Dunmore’s Proclamation.

Read the link to the Dunmore Proclamation with me: “The proclamation declared martial law[1] and promised freedom for slaves of American Patriots who left their owners and joined the British army, becoming Black Loyalists.”

Perhaps you would now like to argue that information in the link you provided can't be trusted; or argue that “promised freedom for slaves” does not mean “free the slaves.”

Earlier you noted “the empire (who) hurt us in at least (the) 27 different ways listed in the Declaration of Independence.”

The freshly-minted 13 independent slave states did not like the British hurts and they said so in their Declaration. This includes the King's attempt to mess with their slaves and set them free.

As you yourself have said: “the Declaration says that Britain treated Americans badly.”

91 posted on 08/12/2023 5:17:53 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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