Contrary to claim by "AquaumanUK" review here, in fact the US revolution was about 1) lack of representation to and ignoring of right of colonists to petition the G. British Government; and b) TAXES.
The claim by "AquamanUK" that the motive for the US Revolution was so the colonists could abrogate treaties is spurious. The Brits were already breaking virtually every treaty with native people around the world, as were the French, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese.There is a context for the US Revolution. There was the development of an entire new school of philosophy about liberty, and anyone who any .education in the history knows this is also the time of Thomas Paine, Locke and for that matter the French Revolution.
We know it was about taxes because British Historians even acknowledge this. The British were in a huge financial hole from wars they promoted on the European continent and also fought all over the world to expand their empire. Culloden occurred slightly before the Seven Years War(in the North American Theater called the French and Indian War) but was part of this general warfare. US colonists had more than paid their fair share in that British war in tax and lives, yet Britain was taxing all classes of colonists at increasing rates and in every type of transaction. Britain WAS massively breaking treaties and seizing native land in the 1740's in order to place colonists on those lands and collect huge taxes and rents to be sent back to Britain. Britain was also MASSIVELY increasing slaves sent to and working in the new world, mostly in the Caribbean at this time. The slave business was an integral part of British economy, more than it ever was in the US economy. In fact of the 12 million African slaves sent to the new World, only about 6%, about 700,000 ever went to all of North America between 1500 and 1850.
Now about the episode: This was one of the best Outlander episodes to date. Yes it deals with sexual assault and that can be painful. But the rape by the British ship captain, just like the rape in an earlier season by the British Army officers, is about the reality women faced.
