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When the Declaration of Independence was ratified on July 4, 1776, the men who signed it pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. This foundational document of our new republic laid out the Enlightenment ideals of liberty and equality and dissolved allegiance to the British crown, igniting a war that would last another seven years. But what followed was anything but simple. A ragged Continental Army took on the most powerful military in the world. Neighbors turned on each other, and countless others, including Native peoples, free and enslaved Black people, and women, were forced to make impossible choices amid the chaos. Here to help us explore that complicated past is Dr. Scott Stevenson, president and CEO of Philadelphia's Museum of the American Revolution, where the objects the people of the revolution left behind, their weapons, letters, and personal belongings, bring you face-to-face with history itself.
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Scott Stevenson, welcome to American History Tellers.
It is great to be here.
So let's begin with George Washington. He's someone every American school child knows, every American knows certainly, and he's arguably the most famous person in American history. But with that comes a mythology that has risen up around him. It's hard to understand or know the person underneath. So when you strip away the legend, the lore, what might surprise us the most about who he really was?
Washington was so notoriously self-controlled, so aware of his public persona during his adult life that even in the period, a lot of people felt that he was a little unknowable. When I was a child, I was born in Western Pennsylvania, grew up in the Pittsburgh area, and 50 years ago was the American bicentennial, so people were talking about George Washington a lot. But actually, if you live in Western Pennsylvania, the George Washington who sort of inhabits the neighborhood there is actually a very unfamiliar George Washington because he's in his 20s, and he's fighting not against the British but on behalf of the British Empire. And I think that's one of the surprising things for many people is learning, like, the young George Washington aspires probably to nothing more passionately than to actually wear a red coat and become a British officer.
Really, in his late teens, early 20s, he, like most British colonial Americans, looked to Britain as the homeland. They considered themselves the most loyal of Britons. Their heroes were British military heroes. Washington would eventually inherit the home Mount Vernon that originally was owned by his elder half-brother Lawrence, who had actually been a British officer.
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