See: Living Through Metahistory, DK site
Professor
The American colonists were the most lightly taxed population, relative to their wealth, and to their status as commoners, in the history of the world. R R Palmer
Jump to your 60s Boomer ingrate narrative:
"...Their leader Mario Savio explicitly compared the predicament of Berkeley undergraduates to that of black citizens in segregated Mississippi--and that comparison apparently resonated..." DK
The wealthy white planter rebel colonists, though owning, holding, and clinging to their negro slaves and their smuggler and duty dodging urban colonists, (triggering the rebellion? who knows), yelped loudest, as Samuel Johnson put it, for their so called liberties.
Patrich Henry, the Mario Savio of his day, was a poorly educated indolent white lawyer on the make when he trumpeted Give me liberty or give me death, as if he were a negro slave fighting for his freedom from the chains of King George.
All the best
I am not a Prestowitz Rogue Nation Rightist Globalist.
Prestowitz should have stopped, while he was ahead, with Trading Places.
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