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This 3 page paper discusses the question of whether or not the American Revolution made a real difference in the issues of slavery, religion and women's rights, and argues that it was not as revolutionary as first thought. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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with regard to slavery, religion and womens rights. Slavery Many observers of the American colonies asked the same question as British author Samuel Johnson: "How is it," asked Samuel Johnson,
"that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" (Coombs, 1997). Europeans who heard the American complaints "thought it strange that a nation run by slave
owners should be so noisily demanding its own freedom" (Coombs, 1997). Treatment of slaves in the colonies was notorious, so much so that critics wondered what place the slaves would
have in the new country if the colonies gained their freedom (Coombs, 1997). The Quakers were "the first group in America to attack slavery" (Coombs, 1997). They were soon
joined by others who saw the basic inconsistency of "slaveholders fighting for their own freedom" (Coombs, 1997). Among those working against slavery were John Jay, James Otis and Abigail Adams
(Coombs, 1997). In 1774, "the Continental Congress did agree to a temporary termination of the importation of Africans into the colonies, but, in reality, this was a tactical blow against
the British slave trade and not an attack against slavery itself" (Coombs, 1997). The armed forces of the Revolution were "largely integrated," but even their exemplary service was not
enough to overcome racial discrimination or the claims of the south that it needed slave labor to work the plantations (Coombs, 1997). Unfortunately the Declaration of Independence ignored the question
and the Constitution tacitly approved it, thus paving the way for the Civil War 70 years later. The American Revolution, then, though it brought the issue of slavery to public
attention, did little or nothing to change the plight of the slaves. Religion Religion, according to one source, "was not a major cause of the American Revolution" (Butler, 2003). However,
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