![]() ![]() Though most colonists agree that King George III is a tyrant, polls consistently show that a minority of colonists support open military action against the British. "And what of the recently uncovered Commonwealth Avenue memos, which would seem to indicate that those closest to Washington were planning for war after the Boston Tea Party back in `73? I'm telling you, the colonists of America have been misled into war!" ![]() "If they really believed in spreading 'freedom,' they would free their own slaves instead of killing the British and shelling innocent civilian Loyalist women and children in Boston and New York," said Howard Deanne, head of the Loyalist National Committee. Critics quickly noted the hypocrisy of Jefferson's reference to "unalienable rights" of liberty and the author's own record of slave-ownership.
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