Colonists put such an emphasis on freedom and liberty as to why they started the American Revolution. Though through all this talk about freedom, liberty and equality; slavery was still legal in America and nothing was ever said on the behalf of the slaves that had their freedom stolen from them. There was a reason for the American Revolution, things needed to change but a war and the brutality used in order to do so just makes these people seem crazy and to make matters worse they practically swept the fact that they owned slaves under the rug. Americans wanted to be free from the British but wanted to maintain owning slaves, it is so ironic because they wanted freedom from the British while the robbing other human beings of their freedom.
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They were being taxed for products such as tea and other commonly used goods; that were just completely outrageous. As John Pendelton Kennedy states in his Virginia Resolutions on the Stamp Act (1765). “ The passage of the Stamp Act by Parliament in 1765 inspired the first major split between colonists and Great Britain.”(Kennedy). Americans had reasons to be upset about the way that they had been taxed on products like tea and other acts such as the stamp act. Taxing such common supplies such as paper and tea was very unfair to put upon people. As John Keown stated in his article Americas War for Independence: Just or Unjust? “It will be recalled that the American Revolution was a tax revolt, first and foremost.” (Keown 12). Taxes such as the stamp act were just complete burdens to the colonists. A revolution was necessary, was full blown war? In grade school people are taught that the American Revolution was completely do to the unfair taxes that the British forced upon the colonist. That was definitely part of it, many of these people really wanted to just get away from British rule all together and wanted the opportunity to govern themselves, which is a good cause for a …show more content…
Disappointingly, many of the founding fathers of this country were wealthy and influential individuals. At the time of the American Revolution the majority of the wealthy people in the colonies were slave owners. Thomas Jefferson is an American icon and he was a owner that abused the power that his wealth gave him. The wealthy colonists wanted to get away from the oppressing British who treated them so unfair. Yet, they were treating their fellow men as if they weren’t people at all. According to the Petition of Slaves to the Massachusetts Legislature (1777) “unalienable rights, the laws of nature” (Collections of The Massachusetts Historical Society). Referring to Liberty and Freedom; every person is born with the unalienable right to be free. That came directly from the Declaration of Independence. Slavery survived the American Revolution because the people who had the money and the land who were more influential than those without wanted it to. Our “Founding Fathers”, that we read such great things about our entire
They were being taxed for products such as tea and other commonly used goods; that were just completely outrageous. As John Pendelton Kennedy states in his Virginia Resolutions on the Stamp Act (1765). “ The passage of the Stamp Act by Parliament in 1765 inspired the first major split between colonists and Great Britain.”(Kennedy). Americans had reasons to be upset about the way that they had been taxed on products like tea and other acts such as the stamp act. Taxing such common supplies such as paper and tea was very unfair to put upon people. As John Keown stated in his article Americas War for Independence: Just or Unjust? “It will be recalled that the American Revolution was a tax revolt, first and foremost.” (Keown 12). Taxes such as the stamp act were just complete burdens to the colonists. A revolution was necessary, was full blown war? In grade school people are taught that the American Revolution was completely do to the unfair taxes that the British forced upon the colonist. That was definitely part of it, many of these people really wanted to just get away from British rule all together and wanted the opportunity to govern themselves, which is a good cause for a …show more content…
Disappointingly, many of the founding fathers of this country were wealthy and influential individuals. At the time of the American Revolution the majority of the wealthy people in the colonies were slave owners. Thomas Jefferson is an American icon and he was a owner that abused the power that his wealth gave him. The wealthy colonists wanted to get away from the oppressing British who treated them so unfair. Yet, they were treating their fellow men as if they weren’t people at all. According to the Petition of Slaves to the Massachusetts Legislature (1777) “unalienable rights, the laws of nature” (Collections of The Massachusetts Historical Society). Referring to Liberty and Freedom; every person is born with the unalienable right to be free. That came directly from the Declaration of Independence. Slavery survived the American Revolution because the people who had the money and the land who were more influential than those without wanted it to. Our “Founding Fathers”, that we read such great things about our entire