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As we commemorate Independence Day, we often remember the familial connections of our founders: John and Abigail, George and Martha. It’s a way to integrate women into the story, but also reminds us that the delegates were working not for themselves but for future generations. Single men fall out of this narrative, rebuked by the Revolutionaries and historians as selfish men who chose personal pleasure over duty to country.

Single white men: the real victims of oppression in Revolutionary America.