Conspiracy Theories
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The American Revolution of 1760 - Sam Adams' Confessions
Sam Adams argued that the British weren't acting a diabolical plot to literally make the American colonists into slaves of the empire. He was pushing this conspiracy theory of the colonists being enslaved when the colonists themselves weren't enslaving people. "It builds into the American Revolution of fundamental contradiction," says Julian Zelizer.
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