On the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, Christopher Reid writes its history from below and centres the standpoints of the Black Americans and indigenous peoples that influenced its development.

https://interregnum.ghost.io/may-day-special-the-american-revolution-race-rebellion-and-a-new-imperial-nation/

#USHistory #History #HistoryFromBelow #radicalhistory #usa #America #americanrevolution

SteveStrummer, Women's March on Versailles002, Added background color and foreground text "Give us liberty, and give us bread." by The Clementine Compendium, CC BY-SA 4.0

WOKE LIBERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON IS UNAMERICAN, PASS IT ON

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2012838/woke-liberal-george-washington-is-unamerican-pass-it-on

"Even if you’re someone with the most prolific knowledge of #Jewish #American #history, you may not have heard of the small #Caribbean island of #StEustatius. But its Jewish community played an important role in the #AmericanRevolution.

The First Salute, a new exhibit at the Weitzman National #Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, highlights the important role #Jews across the Americas, especially in St, Eustatius, played in the American Revolution.

“When we talk about American Jewish history, most people’s brains immediately go to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty and the turn of the 20th century,” Josh Perelman, a senior advisor at the museum, said in an interview. “However, in the 18th century, there were Jewish communities in #NorthAmerica, in the Caribbean, in #SouthAmerica.”

https://forward.com/culture/820522/st-eustatius-jews-the-first-salute-weitzman-museum-philadelphia/

When Benjamin Franklin arrived in France in December 1776, he stayed with Jacques-Barthélémy Gruel, a Nantes shipowner who made a fortune in the slave trade.

Among Gruel’s ships was the Marie-Séraphique, which transported between 302 and 361 enslaved people on each of its four trips from Africa to the French West Indies between 1769 and 1773.

Franklin and some of his fellow revolutionaries sought the support of Nantes merchants and shipowners in transporting weapons and other goods across the Atlantic Ocean during the American Revolution.

We know of the ship and its history because of a rare detailed drawing in the Nantes history museum. The exhibit and a memorial to the abolition of slavery elsewhere in the city acknowledge that Nantes was the leading French port in the slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries.

#hedidnotconquer #Canada #history #books #AmericanRevolution