Hello,

The “American Revolution” is introduced in Regional Public Schools in grade 5 during the European History in Canada unit – specifically the lesson on the “loyalists.”

The fundemental, core curriculum, introduction of the American Revolution is:

“The British were fighting France in a war, they taxed the Americans to fund that war, and the Americans revolted.”

No.

The British Crown and Parliament accented in 1772 to the Somerset v Stewart judgement which stated there was no legal basis for slavery in the British Empire.  

They accented by remaining silent after the ruling – and thereby indicated their acceptance of it.  

In other words: the British King and Parliament accepted slavery was illegal in the British Empire in 1772.

“The French” as referenced in the grade 5 unit that the British were fighting were themselves fighting domestically in France in the French Revolutionary War.  

Those “French” the grade 5’s are told of lost that war.  

They lost TO ABOLITIONISTS who then passed full abolition in France and Constitutional Bill of human rights in 1794-95.  

Those ABOLITIONISTS fought to destroy the “code noir” of Louis XIV – which was a brutal, racist, horrific codification regulating and formally legalizing slavery in the French empire. 

That First French Republic was defeated by Napoleon who immediately relegalized slavery in France in 1802 with a specific focus on keeping slavery legal in the French colonies in what is called North America. 

Those French Slavers that the Brits were fighting in the 1770s provided the guns and most of all the gunpowder to George Washington and the continental army.

Washington was a brutal slaver from Virginia.  He was also the great grandfather of Robert E Lee who led the confederate army when Abraham Lincoln and “THE NORTH” – who were strong and supported freedom – finished what the Brits had initiated: which was the abolition of slavery in the colonies.  

(Lee married into Washington – Dandridge – Custis slaver family…marrying the granddaughter of Washington’s adopted son, who he had raised since he was 3).

As encyclopedia Britannica says: ultimately French gun powder is what won the war for Washington.

The American revolutionary war was slavers in the states allying with slavers in France as *both* were fighting wars against ascendant Abolitionism – including at the Crown of England level.

And Washington at no point, ever, stated a desire to end slavery nor at any point *ever* legislated regarding conditions of slavery domestically.  

The only references to slavery he put his name on is Humans with Black Skin were 3/5th human and in the Fairfax resolves that, in a careful reading of, expressed a desire for american slavers to take full control of the international trade as it effected the colonies while comparing Black people to a domestic resource such as wood in the resolves…and makes no reference to the conditions of domestic slavery nor the desire to end it at all.

That’s the truth.  

The so called “american revolution” was a war against abolition by an alliance of French slavers and American ones.  

That’s the truth.  Full stop.  

The curriculum has to get this right, starting with the Somerset case – including referencing the slaver from whom the person who used the name James Somerset (who was a Black Person who had been kidnapped in West Africa at the age of 8) escaped *was the paymaster general of the Americans customs board based out of Boston harbour where the “Boston tea party” occurred shortly after the ruling.*

It is *exceptionally racist* to ignore the central, absolute, place of slavery – and slavers fighting ascendent abolitionism – when teaching of the so called “american revolution.” 

It was a war of slavers against abolition.  Period.

That’s the truth.  Full stop.