" Butterfield's Whig Interpretation was dismissed...even a scholar of such eminence as Professor Bailyn explained that he would pay little attention to the pamphleteers who argued against the American Revolution since 'the future lay not with them'..." English Society, p. 12.
It would really have been more helpful to have read English Society first, and The Language of Lliberty, and/or Revolution and Rebellion, later, but that is not what I have done, unfortunately.
The American Rebellion was the most successful slave revolt ("Slave colonists of George III") in recorded history.
Why not take the rebel slave American colonists at their word!
Even if they were lying and liars! Cf. DK recent post title.
If you don't take them at their word, what then did their words mean, really?
Take a shot.
Spartacus, as you may recall, had failed.
White Southerners later became slaves of Northern Lincoln republicans, "Athenian" Helots, really.
"...give me liberty, or give me death."
Patrick Henry
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