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George Washington was a colonial officer who had taken an oath to defend King and Country. The War of Independence was a rebellion that resulted in a successful secession. British Governor Lord Dunsmore granted emancipation to all slaves who remained loyal to Great Britain, in October 1775. Slave-owner Washington and his fellow Founding Fathers were traitors to England. The War resulted in a lot of bloodshed. I guess you won't find any honor there either, yankee.

The basis of the American Revolution was that "all men are created equal."

--Thomas Jefferson

The basis of the secessionist revolution is this:

"I am a plain, blunt-spoken man. We say that man has a right to property in man. We say that slaves are our property."

---Texas Senator Wigfall, 1860

Walt

The basis of the American Revolution was that "all men are created equal." --Thomas Jefferson

It must come as a sobering shock to you, Whiskey, to find out that the American Revolution was already more than a year old before Jefferson penned those words. Or does your calendar have a void from April 18, 1775 to July 4, 1776? What were they fighting for in the interim? Were they psychically channelling Jefferson's future words? Or were they fighting for Independence, as in The War of Independence?

I suspect you have no explanation for the Virginia Governor who complained that Union troops were freeing his slaves as they chased the Rebel army up the Virginia Tidewater. That was Governor Thomas Jefferson. The Union troops were the Redcoats of the United Kingdom. The Rebel army was that of George Washington. Do you suppose Thomas Jefferson failed to understand "the basis of the American Revolution"?

And we still haven't learned if you are consistent in choosing Loyalist Governor Lord Dunsmore, the Emancipator of 1775, over rebel George Washington, slaveowner. Please advise us which horn you pick in your dilemma- Emancipation and loyalty to King George III, or Independence and the slaveholders.