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"Second, although the abolition of slavery was not an official British war objective..."That's a lot of maybes. First off, the British didn't fight the colonists to abolish slavery. Or to protect it. But to secure their territory. The abolition movement didn't begin among the British until after the Revolutionary War was already over. Making any issue of slavery irrelevant to the issues of the war even hypothetically without a silver Delorian or a blue police box.
Immediately invalidating your argument.
LOL! First off, the British anti-slavery movement began years before the war. Heard of the Somerset case? Google it. I know you didn't read the Blumrosen book yet, which I cited in my post. Before you challenge an argument, it's a good idea to read the evidence cited in behalf of the argument.
Second, although the abolition of slavery was not an official British war objective, the British soon offered freedom to all slaves who would fight for the king, and many thousands more slaves were freed by the British than were freed by the Patriots.
Similarly, the North did not invade the South to abolish slavery, but after about a year and a half the abolition of Southern slavery became a secondary Union war objective.
You know, why don't you guys ever do some balanced research before you get on here and repeat PC myths?
Full stop. The abolition of slavery was not in any way a British war objective during the American Revolution.
Your comparisons, as usual, are ridiculous.