The American History You're Not Supposed To Know, page 2

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By Royal Proclamation, the British government stops the seizure of Indian lands by speculators from the Thirteen Colonies and establishes a frontier beyond which vast tracts of land are to be preserved in perpetuity where the Indian nations will be able to carry on their traditional way of life.

Ow, my brain hurts after that one. The Proclamation of 1763 wasn't to keep everything nice and happy with the Indians forever and ever. It served two purposes. First, it was a reward to the few Indian nations who sided with the British during the French and Indians(Seven Years) War. Secondly, the British government got all of French Canada from the war, and there was no logical way to govern it for the time being. Therefore, the line drew from the Proclamation was so to keep British colonists at bay until a way to govern it could be figured out.

Of course the pioneers were going to look for more Indian land. More and more of them were moving into the colonies every year, and major money was to be had if they could get their hands on it.

Ben Franklin held two slaves, but by 1787 he was the President of the Abolitionist Society of America.

Other than this, by 1773 there was no taxation of the Thirteen Colonies at all by Britain, making the revolutionary propaganda slogan “no taxation without representation” something of a mystery.

This is bang head on keyboard worthy. That slogan found its origins in conveniently absent acts such as the Stamp Act of 1765.

I'll leave the misunderstandings of the Boston Massacre as just the BS that is American public schools.

These pivotal legal decisions would ultimately lead to the abolition of slavery in all British colonies and possessions throughout the world.

In name maybe, but in practice no. Go ask the Chinese, Indians, Africans, or anyone else subject to British rule. If the British were serious about this in the colonies, why did slavery continue afterward?

Yes, all of the colonies may have been slave holding at the time, but slavery was on its way out in the North. By the time the discussion of the Constitution came around, several Northern States had already abolished slavery.

Also missing from the fantasyland version of the American Revolution sold to the American public is the central fact that, in 1768, the British had entered into treaties with the American Indian nations, prohibiting further theft of their land by speculators

And you want me to bring up all the already broken land treaties the British had with the Indians? There was a reason almost all of the Indians sided with the French during the Seven Years War. But America proudly kept the tradition of ignoring treaties with the Indians.

In contrast, Britain, the evil colonial power, not only ultimately abolished slavery in its own possessions but fought slavery worldwide, maintaining costly naval blockades of the African coast year-round and pursuing slave ships on the high seas, freeing captured Africans.

Britain was the biggest importer of slaves to the United States while the slave trade was still open, until it's close in the 1810's.

The Boston Tea Party was another event that has been mis constructed. Yes, John Hancock was a smuggler. However, they also had been subject to other various acts imposed by Britain. The Tea Act was seen as another way for the British to impose their authority on the colonies.

The Paul Revere thing, is again, another sad fact of most US public high school history courses.

Yes we tried to invade Canada during the Revolution, it was an utter failure.

Washington ordered that "parties should be detached to lay waste all the Iroquois settlements around, with instructions to do it in the most effectual manner, that the country may not be merely overrun, but destroyed."

Maybe because you're in this thing called a war and you have to take care of your enemies. The Iroquois were the greatest Indian threat to America during the war.