The prevalence of white guys at taverns has far more to do with taverns being of particular European cultural significance than It did with skin colour. Good grief...the Scottish didn't even have taverns as such in the revolutionary era. North Eastern public establishments certainly would have had more rigid rules about social mixing due to the French and Indian wars that took place not even a decade prior and tensions were still high and attacks going both ways still prevalent. Jeepers! This guy needs to go to Williamsburg and listen to Miss Jean explain how taverns worked and what the rules were around them. There were no laws excluding non-whites from taverns, Indians went to them occasionally, as did free black, Scottish and Irish people. Owned people could even go to a Tavern, but couldn't be sold whiskey on Sundays. The fact that Tavern owners were restricted from serving indentured and enslaved people hard liquor on Sundays tells us that they certainly were in taverns, and often. This guy needs to stop reading his opinions into history. I was pretty excited for the book until he decided to rewrite history to fit his opinion. Any historian who does that is Terrible at their job and an untrustworthy source. Back to Nicholas Cresswell and Tocqueville, I guess.
The Munroe Tavern , in Lexington, Mass., still standing, deserves mention. Garrisoned on April 19th. Museum today. Great show Liz and guest
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Been to frances tavern it's really is indescribable
The prevalence of white guys at taverns has far more to do with taverns being of particular European cultural significance than It did with skin colour. Good grief...the Scottish didn't even have taverns as such in the revolutionary era. North Eastern public establishments certainly would have had more rigid rules about social mixing due to the French and Indian wars that took place not even a decade prior and tensions were still high and attacks going both ways still prevalent. Jeepers!
This guy needs to go to Williamsburg and listen to Miss Jean explain how taverns worked and what the rules were around them. There were no laws excluding non-whites from taverns, Indians went to them occasionally, as did free black, Scottish and Irish people. Owned people could even go to a Tavern, but couldn't be sold whiskey on Sundays. The fact that Tavern owners were restricted from serving indentured and enslaved people hard liquor on Sundays tells us that they certainly were in taverns, and often.
This guy needs to stop reading his opinions into history. I was pretty excited for the book until he decided to rewrite history to fit his opinion.
Any historian who does that is Terrible at their job and an untrustworthy source.
Back to Nicholas Cresswell and Tocqueville, I guess.