"The Case Against the Case Against the American Revolution" Topic
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| Tango01 | 21 Oct 2020 8:33 p.m. PST |
"July 4 is almost over. But there is still time to address claims that history would have taken a better course had the American Revolution failed (or never started). In the United States, such arguments are made mostly by people on the left. This 2015 Vox article by Dylan Matthews is an excellent example. But similar claims are also made by a few libertarians, such as my George Mason University colleague Bryan Caplan, and by some Canadian and British conservatives. Here are the main arguments typically advanced by modern critics of the Revolution (most elaborated at greater length at the links above): 1. British rule would have led to an earlier and less violent abolition of slavery. The British Empire abolished slavery in 1833, some thirty years before the United States, and it did not require a bloody civil war to do it…"
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| doc mcb | 22 Oct 2020 6:21 a.m. PST |
An excellent article and a strong argument. |
| Tango01 | 22 Oct 2020 12:14 p.m. PST |
Glad you like it my friend! (smile) Amicalement
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