Juxtaposing George’s writings reminded me of Henry VIII releasing a work under his name defending the Seven Sacraments against Martin Luther. That contrasts with his later actions a wee bit.
Seems like an overreaction. Many leaders and politicians put in place policies they personally opposed for pragmatic reasons. Plus most of the original colonies were run like mini theocracies or monarchies where heretics were sent into exile. Before declaring independence many of the early colonies were falling over themselves to get the official imprimature of the King in order for their trade to be protected from piracy and rival nations.
Marxists Lie, that is what they do.
The author is more right than the Smithsonian, but he is overstating the case by calling the Virginia laws “abolitionist”. They were laws aimed at suppressing or (later) banning the international slave trade into Virginia. They did not propose to abolish (or even limit the practice of) slavery itself.
A more nuanced view is found here:
The Smithsonian has an agenda.
They also went throughout the country late 1800’s and early 1900’s
hoovering up
every giant ( nephiliam) skeleton
they could con locals out of
and stuck them somewhere out of sight somewhere within its bowels never to be seen or acknowledged again.
Can’t have evidence that confirms the bible and make their god darwin look bad.
This is what I have often said about Thomas Jefferson. He could wax eloquently about how bad it was to keep people as slaves, but he kept his own slaves.
Good point. My favorite examples is when people try to make the Declaration of Independence about slavery. This is a very bad case of historical malpractice.
The Declaration of Independence is about the right of a collective people to declare independence from a government they see as no longer representing their interests.
Subsequent generations have reinterpreted it to be a condemnation of slavery, which is absolutely misrepresenting it's purpose and intent.
Maybe Roberts is just trying to say that George III wasn’t Hitler. That the US and the UK were able to get along so well later supports that view.
Some Commonwealth countries in Africa continued to allow chattel slavery until the turn of the 20th Century. And British Hong Kong had its own peculiar form of indentured servitude (called mui tsai) that wasn't banned until the 1920s that allowed the buying of young Chinese girls to be kept as household slaves/servants until they were emancipated through marriage .
So Huzzah! for 'Ol Blighty!
Even the English were not all that enamored of him.
The war of American Independence, that was enjoyable by and large
Watching England's free descendants busy defeating German Jarge
-Flanders & Swann - The War Of 14-18