American revolution a mistake
This is pre supposing that Great Britain would well be headed on the track that it were headed revolution or no revolution. The problem here is that the American revolution encompassed so much more than its own revolution along...for instance a seed aiding in the revolution and liberation to follow from the royalists in France, and potentially down the road to changing geo political cosmology elsewhere in the world.
If the British empire were more heavily invested in the Americas might they have had less power economic impetus to invest less in slave trade, or domestically have worked as hard as they had to the abolition of slavery in its own rule of sovereignty on foreign lands where political control were ever as tenuous and frontier as could be had? Its also harder to understand how socio economic and political cosmology of trade would change if political gravitational counter pulls weren't occurring in like kind. The American Revolution was good for changing Great Britain and aiding in the political evolution of its own thinking. All the revolutions around this time were likely having tremendous impact and creating political influxes and changes in political and social thinking even as horror were also being created in like kind. If they hadn't happened old socio economic system may have likely persisted and enlightened thinkers might have been less influential to the degree of the expressed 'universality' of the rights of men...and in time given to a stronger universal notion of ethics and human rights as expressed in political thinking. The Bolshevik revolution may never have occurred if it weren't for the American Revolution and likely Dostoevsky's writings may never have been born into existence. While we think of the modern day out comes of Canada in the Americas, I think it is a mistaken assumption to state in a manner of continuity that all would be the same. Revised thinking seems to assume and replace a modern state having evolved magically and mystically as it were destined as though one element were much superior to the rest. Great Britain relatively speaking might have considered itself superior on the matter of thoughts and ethics in general, but revolutions past certainly had the effect of shaping its own modern future. As to the old phrase historical revisionism, it seems the effect were much the same with respect to the civil war in the United States, if war hadn't resulted the South would likely have a system of slavery having gone the path of extinction anyways as has been argued at least in its horrific end what likely might have resulted were a group of humans pushed further to the brink of intolerable production quotas still not in keeping to machinery. However, it is also possible that the Southern states may have lashed out as the northern states, or that trade relations between Southern states and old world economies may have changed in less than normal ways relative to previous times, and perhaps technological adoptions in agricultural technology may have been stymied in so far as agricultural scientific processes.
The truth is that it is likely not well known what may have happened in time if the American revolution had not happened, but I suspect the modern Great Britain we see today could have differed and maybe enough so, so that the outcomes of slavery were still the same as were the genocide of Native Americans.
This is pre supposing that Great Britain would well be headed on the track that it were headed revolution or no revolution. The problem here is that the American revolution encompassed so much more than its own revolution along...for instance a seed aiding in the revolution and liberation to follow from the royalists in France, and potentially down the road to changing geo political cosmology elsewhere in the world.
If the British empire were more heavily invested in the Americas might they have had less power economic impetus to invest less in slave trade, or domestically have worked as hard as they had to the abolition of slavery in its own rule of sovereignty on foreign lands where political control were ever as tenuous and frontier as could be had? Its also harder to understand how socio economic and political cosmology of trade would change if political gravitational counter pulls weren't occurring in like kind. The American Revolution was good for changing Great Britain and aiding in the political evolution of its own thinking. All the revolutions around this time were likely having tremendous impact and creating political influxes and changes in political and social thinking even as horror were also being created in like kind. If they hadn't happened old socio economic system may have likely persisted and enlightened thinkers might have been less influential to the degree of the expressed 'universality' of the rights of men...and in time given to a stronger universal notion of ethics and human rights as expressed in political thinking. The Bolshevik revolution may never have occurred if it weren't for the American Revolution and likely Dostoevsky's writings may never have been born into existence. While we think of the modern day out comes of Canada in the Americas, I think it is a mistaken assumption to state in a manner of continuity that all would be the same. Revised thinking seems to assume and replace a modern state having evolved magically and mystically as it were destined as though one element were much superior to the rest. Great Britain relatively speaking might have considered itself superior on the matter of thoughts and ethics in general, but revolutions past certainly had the effect of shaping its own modern future. As to the old phrase historical revisionism, it seems the effect were much the same with respect to the civil war in the United States, if war hadn't resulted the South would likely have a system of slavery having gone the path of extinction anyways as has been argued at least in its horrific end what likely might have resulted were a group of humans pushed further to the brink of intolerable production quotas still not in keeping to machinery. However, it is also possible that the Southern states may have lashed out as the northern states, or that trade relations between Southern states and old world economies may have changed in less than normal ways relative to previous times, and perhaps technological adoptions in agricultural technology may have been stymied in so far as agricultural scientific processes.
The truth is that it is likely not well known what may have happened in time if the American revolution had not happened, but I suspect the modern Great Britain we see today could have differed and maybe enough so, so that the outcomes of slavery were still the same as were the genocide of Native Americans.
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