Powerless Groups and Counter Revolution of 1776 Discussion

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The American Revolution and "Powerless Groups"

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In her article Illusion of Change: Women and the American Revolution,Joan Hoff Wilson argues that women, people of color, and the poor gained little or nothing from the American Revolution. Wilson declares, "the American Revolution produced no significant benefits for American women...native Americans, blacks...most propertyless white males, and indentured servants (Wilson, History 11 Coursepack, p.153). Do you agree with Wilson's assessment? What is your opinion regarding who benefited from the American Revolution?

Here is a link to an interesting interview on Democracy Now that highlights a similar view of the American Revolution:

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/6/27/counter_revolution_of_1776_was_us (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

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Proclamation of Earl of Dunmore By November 14, 1775, when John Murray, Earl of Dunmore and royal governor of Virginia, issued his proclamation, his plan to offer freedom to slaves who would leave their patriot masters and join the royal forces was already well underway. Dunmore understood that such an act would have a wide-ranging effect. Not only would it disrupt production, it was also feed the growing fear among the colonists of armed slave insurrections

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I disagree with Wilson's assessment; the groups benefited much from the Revolution war.
The Revolution created institutions as well as the codified type of language including
perceptions that still define the image of American themselves. Besides, the revolutionaries
vindicated their new state with fundamentally new ideas which altered the cause of history and
ember a global period of revolution. Nonetheless, the Revolution was as paradoxical as it could
not be predicted. Indeed, revolutionaries fought struggled in the name of freedom, but not
everyone in America got liberty.
It was a civil war dominated with divisions, violence as well as destructions. For
example, about twenty ...


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