Confederate "Heritage" Month 2023, April 21: On "original sin" in US history

“The American Revolution was not simply an anti-colonial war for independence against the British—an attempt, in the words of Gordon Wood, of ‘eighteenth-century Americans [to] thr[o]w off their monarchical allegiance.’ It was also a colonial war of conquest against North America’s Indigenous peoples.”1

This is from a solid article by Jeffrey Ostler and Karl Jacoby that focuses on two of the most decisive contradictions in American history: African-American slavery and settler colonialism aimed against Indigenous peoples.

Full post: https://brucemillerca.substack.com/p/confederate-heritage-month-2023-april-415