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It's lucky the American Revolution happened in 1776 before the British had all that industrial might to suppress rebellions that they used in the Boer war and t
by narrator 9y ago
It's lucky the American Revolution happened in 1776 before the British had all that industrial might to suppress rebellions that they used in the Boer war and their other brutal colonial repressions.
- forapurpose 9y agoThere are plenty of far more brutal methods of suppression used long before the Industrial Revolution, unfortunately.
- psergeant 9y agoIt gave the Americans the chance to use it on the native Americans. The first concentration camps were American, not British.
- wavefunction 9y agoThe Romans beat the Americans to the punch by millennia.
- Chris2048 9y agoNot so lucky for Black slaves in America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833 Instead they would need to wait until 1865, 33-23 years later..