Anonymous ID: 186e06 June 5, 2021, 5:39 p.m. No.13838694   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>8733

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The “Halifax Resolves,” like the later Declaration of Independence, carefully delineated grievances against the mother country. By highlighting misdeeds perpetrated by the Crown, the colonists justified severing the relationship between themselves and Great Britain. Both the “Halifax Resolves” and the Declaration of Independence demonstrate the radical nature of the move toward independence.

 

The complaint in the Halifax Resolves “That Governors in different Colonies have declared Protection to Slaves who should imbrue their Hands in the Blood of their Masters” reveals another motivation behind North Carolina’s declaring independence from Great Britain: the colonists’ fears of armed slave rebellion, which was being explicitly encouraged at the time by Virginia governor Lord Dunmore’s offer of freedom to any enslaved person who took up arms for the Crown.

https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/april-12/