The Discuccion
Was society fairer in an independent America? It was definitely fairer for the fair, since taxation without representation Britain abolished slavery in 1807, USA in 1865, although it had declined before the invention of the cotton gin People could live near the frontier and gain new land, opposed to the Proclamation Line Did the Revolution give people the chance to erect a new world different from the Old World of Europe? Frontier New laws through elections - different from monarchy Culture was European Were the British excessively brutal in their tactics aimed at quelling and then fighting the American rebels? ( source ) There was much propaganda, the film itself is basically one example Church burning was fictitious The British thought of it entirely as a rebellion, insurrection Captured prisoners were not given usual protection, they were traitors British massacres as a tool Lex talionis (an eye for an eye) - Loyalist murdered by patriot, Patriot hanged due to Loyalist killing, Br