Skriuwer
The history books painted the American Revolution as a noble fight for freedom. They left out what actually happened. This book goes where most histories won’t. The same founders who proclaimed 'all men are created equal' owned over 600,000 enslaved people. Native nations lost vast territories to revolutionary land grabs backed by scalp bounties. Loyalists, who made up nearly a third of the population, faced mob violence, property theft, and forced exile. What you’ll discover inside: - Why Jefferson’s 'freedom' rhetoric collapsed under the weight of his own plantation - The genocidal campaigns against Native peoples during and after the Revolution - How Loyalist families were stripped of everything by their neighbors - The class warfare that turned poor colonists against the revolution’s elite beneficiaries - The Boston Massacre’s real story versus the propaganda version - What the Continental Army’s brutal conditions reveal about who the revolution actually served Drawing on over 50 academic sources, court records, and primary documents, this investigation dismantles the sanitized myth and replaces it with the full, unfiltered record. The revolution happened. It just didn’t happen the way you were told.
