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Yeah, he probably did. Irishmen sometimes came here, it just tends to get glossed over as they'd usually convert to Protestantism. And the more victim oriented historiography of liberal academics doesn't emphasize white indentured servants in all the virtue signaling over slavery.

There was always significant class warfare in Virginia (Bacon's Rebellion being the most explosive example). And obviously the place was dominated by wealthy slave owners. That West Virginia even exists today has to do really with the working class freeing themselves from Washington's class in the Piedmont and Tidewater. This is largely forgotten today because conservatives lack much in the way of explicit class consciousness, and think any desire to have it is Communism, or more retarded: 'Jewish'. This is their excuse to turn off their brains.

At that time slave owning was cool. If tik tok existed it would have been full of slave owning videos…

You DO get better marks for trackers and explorers. London just better exemplifies the average worker. He's someone whose lived experiences the average man can relate to.

Grant was a drunk that lost the white vote in 1868 even with Confederates barred from voting and at least two states excluded from the union. In other words he was leading a dictatorship. Even his generalship is controversial. I think conventional Southern scholarship would hold he was a crude brawler who took over because his predecessors were even less skilled than he was. Lee had more finesse.

Washington and Jefferson: heirs of other rich fucks. Virginia was founded by toffs, Cavaliers, that were partisans of the Stuarts in the English Civil Wars.

My shortlist would include men along the lines of gunfighters, pirates, various rebels, and other non-state actors capable of challenging the state. Who we see as heroes says a lot about how we see the world. If you see establishment figures as the best on offer you're going to be essentially establishment oriented yourself. This is something Howard Zinn did demonstrate well with his notorious history book.