Dunmore’s Proclamation required slaves to fight with the Redcoats to gain their freedom. Philipsburg was a general emancipation.
I never said that I found any part of the DOI immoral and I haven’t seen anyone produce a post of mine to that effect. Someone may be reading their own ideas into what I did write- I asked what ‘moral rights’ the DOI is said to be citing by those making that claim.
The DOI isn’t the ‘Declaration of Moral Rights’, it’s an announcement that the colonials were fed up with their mother gov’t in London and that they intended to start their own gov’t. London considered it treason. Had London won I suspect that we’d be treated to the story that the colonial rebels were guilty of treason rather than unsuccessful defenders of some unnamed moral rights.
“I never said that I found any part of the DOI immoral and I haven’t seen anyone produce a post of mine to that effect.”
I take it you stand by what you wrote in Post 214 (”I still am waiting to see what moral right there was for the British colonials seceding from their mother government”) which indicates disagreement with my Post 230 position (”And they used the Declaration of Independence to convey the moral right for their rebellion”) yet you write “I never said that I found any part of the DOI immoral”.
Okay.