• MortUS@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    To get out from under The British Empire, which is pretty understandable during the time period.

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      8 hours ago

      Not very understandable. Britain had become a new and particularly liberal democracy by this point. The colonists were paying much less tax than their cousins back home, and “The Empire” didn’t really get started until after the Americans had revolted anyway.

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        3 hours ago

        All of this is bullshit.

        What made them “particularly liberal”? They were exporting their “prisoners” to the American colonies. They were still colonizing other territories, extending their reach. They were still selling African slaves via slave trade through The East India Trading Company. The Empire was in full swing by the 1600s, through the 1700s, well into the 1800s where they started to lose steam through the century.