Micro, I love history that is real and human and n
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Posted On: 08/26/2017 10:50:36 AM
Micro, I love history that is real and human and not changed to support a political position. Imagine a 5foot four inch 1800's clad pistol packing president who is sitting a horse, (shetland pony lol), as our leader!!!
Our founding fathers were real people! Not some characters in a 1776 play but people with breakable bones and fears of being squashed by Great Britain and winter and small pox.
Slavery was part of doing business. AS bad as it was, most all parts of the world had some form of slavery as part of the system. To rise above the rest of the world and see slavery for what it was ,was an enormous victory for a free society at that time and we,today, forget to keep things in perspective. Indentured Servants was common practice and we rarely even talk about those folks.
You had to have large families because mortality rates were so high, you didn't know who would survive. Most folks didn't get to age forty and if they did they had no teeth and were a collection of scars and ongoing pain from previous injuries that never healed correctly. No glasses to correct your vision so hunting was basically out, forget reading if you knew how, sewing and needle point, artists and scribes all basically blind to their respective disciplines. Planting crops required limber strong bodies. Arthritis was everyones companion after age 30 due to injuries to joints and poor diet.
There was no safety net. You either worked and prepared for winter or you starved.
So when you couple all those concerns with a threat of this embryonic government collapsing , you can see why folks rallied to rebuild Washington quickly.
Our founding fathers were real people! Not some characters in a 1776 play but people with breakable bones and fears of being squashed by Great Britain and winter and small pox.
Slavery was part of doing business. AS bad as it was, most all parts of the world had some form of slavery as part of the system. To rise above the rest of the world and see slavery for what it was ,was an enormous victory for a free society at that time and we,today, forget to keep things in perspective. Indentured Servants was common practice and we rarely even talk about those folks.
You had to have large families because mortality rates were so high, you didn't know who would survive. Most folks didn't get to age forty and if they did they had no teeth and were a collection of scars and ongoing pain from previous injuries that never healed correctly. No glasses to correct your vision so hunting was basically out, forget reading if you knew how, sewing and needle point, artists and scribes all basically blind to their respective disciplines. Planting crops required limber strong bodies. Arthritis was everyones companion after age 30 due to injuries to joints and poor diet.
There was no safety net. You either worked and prepared for winter or you starved.
So when you couple all those concerns with a threat of this embryonic government collapsing , you can see why folks rallied to rebuild Washington quickly.
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