Independence Day, 250 Years Later
Robert Edge Pine & Edward Savage’s “Congress Voting Independence”. (ca. 1784-1788) Two and a half centuries back, quite a few English subjects who were living in colonies strung along North America's east cast had become fed up. Thoroughly. Like pretty much anything else involving humans, it's complicated. It wasn't just paying tax on tea, or government-mandated stamps on all paper goods and legal documents. Even having to buy tea exclusively from the British East India Company might have been tolerable.... More at A Catholic Citizen in America . (I know that America is not perfect. But I like being an American. Knowing history helps. Looking back at 250 years of American experience.)