PBS debuted a new two-part documentary on Tuesday by Lucy Worsley that seeks to cover the American Revolution from the British perspective and how its series of missteps led to the loss of the colonies. At one point in part one, Worsley interviewed Prof. Olivette Otele in a segment that sounded like it came out of The 1619 Project, as both suggested the Dunmore Proclamation had a lot to do with the Southern colonies being pushed to join the rebellion despite the historical timeline not matching up with such an assertion.
Worsley teased that, “At the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, I’m meeting a historian to examine newspaper reports from December 1775. They tell a remarkable story about Lord Dunmore, Britain’s royal governor in Virginia.”
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