The white male of the group spends most of his time being the "stupid barbaric" boy (the whole tarring and feathering episode was just made to show how "evil" Americans were) while the "ascended" British woman spends 80% of the series disagreeing with the war, only to kinda sorta understand it at the end of it all.
That actually did happen. Americans did tar and feather a British sailor, its an event seen in the John Adams miniseries as well. What both got wrong was the type of tar used. Tar and feathering used pine tar, it doesn't scorch the skin or melt clothing.
It also paints a stereotypical revisionist story of slavery, ignoring the facts of it and instead focusing on how "enlightened" all blacks were when most couldn't even speak English and how evil all fat white men were. Slavery was not a black and white thing. Blacks sold blacks in conquest, jewish merchant ships sailed them over, and all races bought them.
Knock off with the antisemitism, that needs to be excised from TDW entirely. It wasn't Jewish merchant ships, it was merchant ships affiliated with almost every European naval power. So far, the show does depict slavery fairly accurately. The northern colonies were very anti slavery, with several attempting to ban slavery in their territories. These laws with overridden by the Crown appointed Governors. Slavery was more prominent in the southern colonies, which were heavily influenced by the Jamestown colony. The northern colonies evolved from the Plymouth colony and the Puritans, who were very anti slavery.
It does do a good job of portraying most heroes of the revolution, albeit it paints Thomas Paine as more of a madman nobody liked than a patriot. Ben Franklin being voiced by Walter Cronkite was kind of a let down too, literally a slap in the face to tue founding fathers, as he was the epitomy of woke yellow journalism of his time.
Perhaps, but Cronkite does a pretty good job voicing him, and he's using actual quotes from Franklin. In fact, from what I've watched so far, most of the Founders who speak in the show use real quotes and writings.
Sure, the show is geared for kids and therefore has to simplify things, but its a far side better than 1619.
That actually did happen. Americans did tar and feather a British sailor, its an event seen in the John Adams miniseries as well. What both got wrong was the type of tar used. Tar and feathering used pine tar, it doesn't scorch the skin or melt clothing.
Knock off with the antisemitism, that needs to be excised from TDW entirely. It wasn't Jewish merchant ships, it was merchant ships affiliated with almost every European naval power. So far, the show does depict slavery fairly accurately. The northern colonies were very anti slavery, with several attempting to ban slavery in their territories. These laws with overridden by the Crown appointed Governors. Slavery was more prominent in the southern colonies, which were heavily influenced by the Jamestown colony. The northern colonies evolved from the Plymouth colony and the Puritans, who were very anti slavery.
Perhaps, but Cronkite does a pretty good job voicing him, and he's using actual quotes from Franklin. In fact, from what I've watched so far, most of the Founders who speak in the show use real quotes and writings.
Sure, the show is geared for kids and therefore has to simplify things, but its a far side better than 1619.