On April 19, 1775, the first battles of the American Revolution were fought in Lexington and Concord between soldiers of the British Empire and American rebels. How did the British Empire, the most powerful, wealthy, and politically sophisticated polity in the world at the time, manage to alienate its most prosperous North American colonies? Here are 10 reasons:
10. Abolition and slavery. There has been a long-running narrative in leftist circles that the American rebels only left so they could protect slavery from the enlightened British Empire, which was collectively beginning to see the errors of its ways in regards to the slave trade. There is a kernel of truth to this argument, at least when it comes to the southern colonies, but it's also not as strong as leftists make it sound.
