Source? I have read a lot of US history from this era. and a lot of people lost their lives and/or fortunes in taking a stand for the ideal of self-determination. Not everyone was on board, plenty were OK with the status quo. Not trying to start an argument, genuinely curious. Can certainly agree that history is complicated, and no on…
Source? I have read a lot of US history from this era. and a lot of people lost their lives and/or fortunes in taking a stand for the ideal of self-determination. Not everyone was on board, plenty were OK with the status quo. Not trying to start an argument, genuinely curious. Can certainly agree that history is complicated, and no one can really convey the full context of what the times were like as they weren't THERE. Similar awakening after reading Thomas Sowell's Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality? Many of the civil rights leaders were really about stirring up the masses to build their own power base vs truly caring about the betterment of the people they purported to represent.
Donna, not one source but an opinion I formed from a myriad of sources, many of them primary sources. What I do for a living is write books about history and I’m known for accuracy. I mostly use primary sources, and always question secondary sources (many of them are amazingly inaccurate). I was encouraged to write a book about the American revolution and when I began my research process I was shocked by what I saw. During that time I found myself speaking at a school in Boston (Boston!) and they asked me what I was working on next. When I began to rant about how much brainwashing and false hoods were fed to the colonists, getting them to sacrifice their lives for the sake of the wealth of the elites, and I saw the looks on the faces of the teachers, I realized I better not write that book at all. And I better keep my mouth shut too. I had already spent a lot of money on research, but I dropped it like a hot potato. That’s why I prefaced my comment with IMHO, because it’s just my opinion, and the question this morning brought out a bit of the old rant lol.
And, not simply self-determination. It was the freedom to live freely before Almighty God, according to the dictates of one’s conscience lived in submission to God. May seem like hair-splitting, but it is the difference between living for oneself vs living under God the Creator.
Source? I have read a lot of US history from this era. and a lot of people lost their lives and/or fortunes in taking a stand for the ideal of self-determination. Not everyone was on board, plenty were OK with the status quo. Not trying to start an argument, genuinely curious. Can certainly agree that history is complicated, and no one can really convey the full context of what the times were like as they weren't THERE. Similar awakening after reading Thomas Sowell's Civil Rights: Rhetoric or Reality? Many of the civil rights leaders were really about stirring up the masses to build their own power base vs truly caring about the betterment of the people they purported to represent.
Donna, not one source but an opinion I formed from a myriad of sources, many of them primary sources. What I do for a living is write books about history and I’m known for accuracy. I mostly use primary sources, and always question secondary sources (many of them are amazingly inaccurate). I was encouraged to write a book about the American revolution and when I began my research process I was shocked by what I saw. During that time I found myself speaking at a school in Boston (Boston!) and they asked me what I was working on next. When I began to rant about how much brainwashing and false hoods were fed to the colonists, getting them to sacrifice their lives for the sake of the wealth of the elites, and I saw the looks on the faces of the teachers, I realized I better not write that book at all. And I better keep my mouth shut too. I had already spent a lot of money on research, but I dropped it like a hot potato. That’s why I prefaced my comment with IMHO, because it’s just my opinion, and the question this morning brought out a bit of the old rant lol.
And, not simply self-determination. It was the freedom to live freely before Almighty God, according to the dictates of one’s conscience lived in submission to God. May seem like hair-splitting, but it is the difference between living for oneself vs living under God the Creator.