No way. The Bicentennial celebration was just in .... oh crap.
A quarter of a millennium. Hard to believe.
Even harder to believe how far we have strayed from the vision of those men.
The majority of British subjects in North America did not pine for liberty, or exhibit a general disdain for royal pomp, or loathe the monarchy, until the very last minute—if at all.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I respectfully disagree.
The Scottish Highland Clearances happened shortly after the Battle of Cullodhen in 1746. Scottish clansmen , their families and women and children were transported to the 13 colonies where they initially became indentured servants ( slaves)to the British in America. That did not last for long, many escaped their indentures and went off to homestead on their own , seizing their freedom.They remained quite consistent in their hatred of the British, although some balked, such as Flora MacDonald herself, who remained loyal to the royal fig.
Thank God we had a few who had a distinct dislike for the British , and a parallel yen for freedom. The foremost perhaps being Francis Marion ,also known as the Swamp Fox, recently popularized in the film “The Patriot “ starring Mel Gibson.
Another was Samuel Adams who in response to criticism by British Loyalists said this is a speech on August 1st, 1776 at the Philadelphia State House:
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; secondly, to liberty; thirdly to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.”
Adams was of Scottish descent.He knew exactly what the British had done with the Clearances. He was having none of it in America.Again, thank GOd for men such as Francis Marion and Samuel Adams, and those who followed them.
I do not believe that. I've read too much about the founders to accept that is fact. There was no polling data available then, but the desire to be left alone to live their lives in peace brought masses of people to leave Europe. (And Kings and Queens and various monarchs.)
And this carried over here in Texas when we broke from dictator Santa Anna.
Nope, I believe that during the American revolution there was probably 1/3 of the population loyal to the European monarchs. There is no way to determine how many in the Colonies were indentured servants. (not both white and black)
(From Wiki) Alexis Coe is an American presidential historian, podcast host, exhibition curator and tv commenter. She is a senior fellow at New America and the author of award-winning Alice and Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis (2014) and the New York Times best-selling You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington (2020).
She is just a child, of the Left.
Coe is a senior fellow at New America, a bipartisan think tank in Washington, D.C.
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Bfl
Okay,but.its National Trail mix day!
And today, a bold group of commiecRATS and RINOs work diligently to destroy their creation. The US is in dire straits - we either elect trump of the world plunges into 1000 years of darkness.