The sources differ in the groups of people they focus on. As is common with Leftist sources, Source A portrays the war in regards to a traditionally overlooked group / minority - black Americans. It explains that the American Revolution marked “the first mass slave rebellion in American history, initiated the first civil rights movement, produced the first reconstruction of black life, brought forth the first written testimonies from African Americans who wanted the world to hear of their strivings and their claims to freedom.” Source B, however, describes the war with relation to the important, major parties (i.e. British officials, the Founding Fathers and other ambitious, wealthy colonial elites). It claims that “certain important people
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Nell’s] efforts in the 1850s as the first chronicler of black revolutionary service,” and how at 35, “Nell published a pamphlet entitled The Services of Colored Americans in the Wars of 1776 and 1812.” The source explains that Bell’s book “reached the public in 1855 just as the newspapers were reporting fearsome violence over abolitionism in ‘Bleeding Kansas,’” and that “not until 1922 did Carter G. Woodson… dare to include a paragraph in The Negro in Our History about the thousands of... slaves who had fled to the British during the war.” The source also explains the treatment of black history in “multivolume nineteenth-century histories of the United States by George Bancroft, Richard Hildreth, Edward Channing, and Henry Adams [and] twentieth-century schoolbooks from the pens of Woodrow Wilson, Charles Francis Adams, Charles and Mary Beard, David Mussey, and others.” Source A goes on to explain how “only in 1940 would a slim pamphlet set the stage for turning upside down the historical understanding of black revolutionary involvement.” Source B, however, provides insight into the period preceding the Revolution (causes), stating that “starting with Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, by 1760, there had been eighteen uprisings aimed at overthrowing colonial governments,” and that “by the 1760s, this local leadership saw the possibility of directing much of the rebellious energy against England and her local officials.” It explains the English …show more content…
Source B describes how, aside from British provocations, resentment towards wealth and attacks on political elites were on the rise prior to the Revolution. It states that in the aftermath of the Seven Years’ War, “letters in the papers questioned the distribution of wealth: ‘How often have our Streets been covered with Thousands of Barrels of Flour for trade, while our near Neighbors can hardly procure enough to make a Dumplin to satisfy hunger?’” It also explains that “by the early 1770s, the top 5 percent of Boston's taxpayers controlled 49% of the city's taxable assets… wealth was more and more concentrated,” and “by 1750 the wealthiest people in the cities were leaving 20,000 pounds.” The source states: “The rich, it turned out, could avoid the [military] draft by paying for substitutes; the poor had to serve. This led to rioting, and shouting: ‘Tyranny is Tyranny let it come from whom it may.’” Source A also explains the social divisions in America prior to the war, including the “rabid Negrophobia in the North that abolitionists confronted,” and the determination of American revolutionaries to “overthrow corrupt power” and defend the unalienable rights and power of the people. Blacks expressed their resentment not against Britain, but against white Americans
Nell’s] efforts in the 1850s as the first chronicler of black revolutionary service,” and how at 35, “Nell published a pamphlet entitled The Services of Colored Americans in the Wars of 1776 and 1812.” The source explains that Bell’s book “reached the public in 1855 just as the newspapers were reporting fearsome violence over abolitionism in ‘Bleeding Kansas,’” and that “not until 1922 did Carter G. Woodson… dare to include a paragraph in The Negro in Our History about the thousands of... slaves who had fled to the British during the war.” The source also explains the treatment of black history in “multivolume nineteenth-century histories of the United States by George Bancroft, Richard Hildreth, Edward Channing, and Henry Adams [and] twentieth-century schoolbooks from the pens of Woodrow Wilson, Charles Francis Adams, Charles and Mary Beard, David Mussey, and others.” Source A goes on to explain how “only in 1940 would a slim pamphlet set the stage for turning upside down the historical understanding of black revolutionary involvement.” Source B, however, provides insight into the period preceding the Revolution (causes), stating that “starting with Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, by 1760, there had been eighteen uprisings aimed at overthrowing colonial governments,” and that “by the 1760s, this local leadership saw the possibility of directing much of the rebellious energy against England and her local officials.” It explains the English …show more content…
Source B describes how, aside from British provocations, resentment towards wealth and attacks on political elites were on the rise prior to the Revolution. It states that in the aftermath of the Seven Years’ War, “letters in the papers questioned the distribution of wealth: ‘How often have our Streets been covered with Thousands of Barrels of Flour for trade, while our near Neighbors can hardly procure enough to make a Dumplin to satisfy hunger?’” It also explains that “by the early 1770s, the top 5 percent of Boston's taxpayers controlled 49% of the city's taxable assets… wealth was more and more concentrated,” and “by 1750 the wealthiest people in the cities were leaving 20,000 pounds.” The source states: “The rich, it turned out, could avoid the [military] draft by paying for substitutes; the poor had to serve. This led to rioting, and shouting: ‘Tyranny is Tyranny let it come from whom it may.’” Source A also explains the social divisions in America prior to the war, including the “rabid Negrophobia in the North that abolitionists confronted,” and the determination of American revolutionaries to “overthrow corrupt power” and defend the unalienable rights and power of the people. Blacks expressed their resentment not against Britain, but against white Americans