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In reply to the discussion: A History of Liberal White Racism [View all]AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)No, the sad truth is, the Redcoats were quite guilty of cynically using African-Americans as nothing more than pawns......at least as much as the Patriots, if not more, in fact!
And, by the way, Canada's being a better place for Black folks(which it really was, no doubt), had very little to do with it still being British for 90 more years; it was, more than anything, thanks to the fact that slavery had virtually NO presence anywhere in the area. If Canada and the *northern U.S. had gone republican, instead of just all the 13 non-Canadian colonies, it very likely wouldn't have made much of a difference(not by itself, anyway); and in such a scenario, the still-British South would not be pleasant for African-Americans, and it's even more than possible that slavery would have lasted at least as long as it did in our world, maybe even longer.