re: #237 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Yes, I should have written “British crown”.

Dinna fash yersel’, it’s no the first time some ignorant Yank has made that stupid mistake. Won’t be the last either.

Point being, the rulers did not care about the people.

By the mid-1700s the Crown had little political leverage and no power of taxation, it was all up to Parliament. The US has this weird creation myth that the oppression of George III had everything to do with the slave-owners revolt in 1776 whereas they actually rebelled against the democratically-elected British Parliament that was in charge of setting taxes and passing laws.