Academics agree: 1776 not 1619
America became a nation in 1787 at the signing and ratification of the United States Constitution. In fact, before the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the United States of America did not exist, To date the British Empire has been to largest and most powerful empire in human history and is where the ideals of globalism truly stem from. Those that profess that America began in 1619 have no founding nor source material to prove or even support these wild claims. Indeed, Marxist revisionists have been attempting to rewrite the known and well, sourced history of America since the 1990s and possibly since the 1960s. Through bogus ideals such as, critical race theory, continued colonialism, twentieth century Western imperialism, class structure theory and a variety of other intellectually dishonest theories, Marxist historical revisionists have attempted to defraud not just the extensively documented history of the United States of America, but history itself. The oxymoronic relativism of utilizing individual historical stories, with little to no primary sources, to explain entire eras and movements, rather than the actual shakers and movers, while at the same time infusing group theories and class structure to stitch together the belief in the inevitable class struggle that has been taking place since the inception of civilization, is illogical, unproven, without primary source materials and in short is utter hog wash. Of course, Marxist revisions have transitioned, as they have alway historically, from competing in the marketplace of ideas, straight to coercion, violence and bullying to get this idiocy before our children, into the schools and parroted by bureaucrats and celebrities. The idea that European settlers came to the shores of North America in 1619 to promulgate slavery, slaughter Native Americans and conquer the land is a total falsehood. Furthermore, the popular narrative that America, which did not become a nation until 1787, began as an imperialistic entity that brought slavery to the New World is another fabrication of revisionists. None of these claims and arguments hold up under scrutiny, nor are they based on primary sources, which is of course, how we investigate, write and argue history. Indeed, the American colonists inherited slavery from the British, Portuguese, Spaniards and the French. The argument that Great Britain first abolished slavery is nonsense. In 1833 the British Empire finally passed the Slavery Abolition Act, after twenty-six years of debating it in Parliament. The British in no way passed this Act in a humanitarian effort to right a wrong, but rather as an economic move and a military strategy to avoid losing colonies in the Caribbean, West Indies and else where due to slave uprisings, mimicking the American Revolution. British slavery continued in portions of India, China and elsewhere until it became a burden in keeping these land holdings under British rule. In other words, the British did not free the slaves, they traded the enslaved people’s free labor for indentured servitude and remained the colonial master of these areas. While it is true that after America became a nation, slavery continued, it only remained so as an American institution for 78 years and was abolished materially, physically and lawfully in one lifetime. The American Civil War ended slavery in 1865, encoded in law and came into being through the bloodshed of over 600,00 Americans and is, still to date, one of the largest and bloodiest civil wars in human history, one of very few fought on an ideal. This is not to say, nor condone or even trivialize the Atlantic Slave trade, that is most definitely a part of America’s historical narrative. It is to state, that not only was America the first civilization to legally and lawfully end human slavery, it was the first to do so through a complete restructuring of its own society and in turn, societies throughout the world. History is rarely a simplistic story of oppressors and the oppressed and is in fact messy, complicated and has many facets. What is clear is that the American Revolution thoroughly changed the way humans construct a civil society, one that has yet to be fully realized anywhere outside of America. All stories and histories involve tyrants, the impoverished, the enslaved, and quite frequently utter collapse and failure. America is unique in this sense, and regardless of the mistakes committed during this experiment over the last two and a half centuries, no other culture is more diverse, economically stable nor more fair and just than the United States of America. This journey that has lifted more ships to level than any other system throughout the story of human civilization, began in 1776 as a radical ideal based upon enjoying the fruit of ones labor, the ability to chart your own course and placed the power structures at the heal of the people. It most certainly did not begin at Plymouth Rock as a racist endeavor of white colonialism in 1619, as some class struggle. The pilgrims and the Puritans owned no slaves, drove no Natives from their lands and relocated to avoid oppression, not as a journey to institute it elsewhere. America’s beginnings are traced to 1776 in a movement to topple colonialism, not as some oblique continuation thereof.
