What I find interesting is that there are so many ignorant people in America who want to return to the Republic of 1776. That Republic wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for the Boston Tea Party in 1773, which got the ball rolling.
Do we really want to return to the Republic of 1776?
The facts are that only white men who owned property could vote.
Women and children were chattel–property of a husband, brother or father. Women couldn’t vote or own property. Children could be sold into a form of slavery called servitude. In the Southern Colonies, there were African slaves, who had been gathered in Africa by Islamic slave raiders to be sold and sent to the Americas. It would take more than 80 years to rid the young Republic known as the Land of the Free of slavery and to do that would cost hundreds of thousands of lives in a bloody Civil War.
It would take longer (more than a century) to free women as chattel and eventually those women gained the right to vote.
Children would be the last to be free from the danger of being sold into servitude to help mom and dad pay the bills and feed the rest of the family since wages were low for the working man and job security didn’t exist.
For more than a century, children as young as seven would be sold to work in sweat-shop factories for no pay or in the coal mines because those children were the right size to drag sleds loaded with coal up narrow bore tunnels that a full sized man couldn’t fit in.
