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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 8997352" data-attributes="member: 4534">If you've ever read Herodotus, one of the interesting things is the Spartans going on and on about how awesome it is to be free but don't seem to be bothered by all the Helots they have as slaves back home.  I agree, it would be an interesting topic for the game.  There were Americans at the time who did not care for slavery, but they still had to work with people from the Carolinas if they wanted to win the war.  Hell, even Jefferson recognized the evils of slavery, but then it's not like he did a whole lot about it. That's a legitimate point of view.  On the other hand, if Great Britain wanted an empire, that's just the cost of doing business and it's not fair to expect people who have no say in going to war that they should pay for it.  Funnily enough, Americans thought they won the war as if Great Britain wasn't the one who did all the heavy lifting.  From Great Britain's point of view, the colonies simply existed to be economically exploited with raw goods would be shipped from the Americas to Britain and they in turn would ship finished products back.  Strangely enough, it took quite a while for the colonists to build up ire against King George.  Most of the dissastisfaction was directed at Parliament and it wasn't until close to the outbreak of war that it was directed at George specifically. Yeah, I remember that movies.  I also remember a line, "We're not slaves, we're free." that threw me completely out of the movie.  They really went out of the way to make the British look like a bunch of monsters and whitewashed the Americans.</blockquote>

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