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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: marcos who wrote (6870)	6/2/2000 4:50:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

It's also important to remember that the American revolution came out of a totally different colonial situation than the one that prevailed in colonies of Spain. The American colonists either killed the indigenous inhabitants or drove them away, replacing them with a large number of private landholders, most of them small owner/tillers. Not that it was an entirely egalitarian society - it wasn't, not by any means - but it was a long way from the Spanish hacienda system, where the colonists ruled as undisputed lords and masters of vast estates worked by native labor. Washington was not leading a rebellion of natives against an occupying colonial power, he was leading a rebellion of English expatriates against the mother country, and that had a tremendous effect on both the conduct of the war and the government that emerged at the end of the war.