The Hypocrisy of The American Revolution for Freedom

With respect to the plight of African Americans at the time of the Revolutionary War, Frey makes clear that they were engaged in a struggle for freedom from the greatest oppression--slavery-- while their oppressors prepared to fight and fought against other, far lesser oppression.

Frey examines the War in the context of the South and points out that while the major "belligerents" in the war were white--British and American, or, more specifically, two sets of Britishers--there were also four hundred thousand slaves involved as well:

The environment in which the revolutionary conflict developed in the South was shaped not only by British policies or white southern initiatives but also by African-American resistance (Frey 45).

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e hypocrisy of the claim that the revolution was rooted in the ideal, principle, and goal of "political freedom." There were some similarities between slaves and women in revolutionary America. Just as the lives of slaves were restricted to very limited roles, so were women's. One recalls that women were given the vote decades after that right was given to black males. Women in Revolutionary America were little more than domestic servants, less educated than the average white male, and without political involvement or power. In their case as in the case of blacks, the lie that the war was based on political ideals is brutally exposed: Having learned from Aristotle that politics was the affair of men, Americans continued to discuss political affairs in terms that largely excluded women, and that reflected the assumption that women were . . . 'idiots in the Greek sense of the word, that is, persons who do not participate in the polis' (Kerber 7-8). The major difference between slaves and women was that women were essentially invited to be participants in the Revolution whereas slaves were violently excluded from the process. This was due to the fact that white American males did not fear that a revolt by women would result f
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