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The scene in the Patriot when the young woman is speaking to the crowd in church, this seems inaccurate because women were not allowed to speak their minds. They had to sit still and be quite. –Ashley Scutari | The scene in the Patriot when the young woman is speaking to the crowd in church, this seems inaccurate because women were not allowed to speak their minds. They had to sit still and be quite. –Ashley Scutari | ||
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| + | One could say that the movie treated the issue of slavery with kid gloves, but that is likely an understatement. Perhaps "infant gloves," would be a better way to put the way that this film portrayed colonial attitudes toward blacks. The likelihood that a South Carolina man of stature would have zero slaves out of an all black workforce struck me as far fetched at best. Also, upon given the chance for freedom, it seems unlikely that these same workers would resist in the manner that Martins men resisted Tavington's offer of freedom in exchange for service. Then there is Occam, the stoic slave offered up to Martin's militia. The idea that only one man in the militia would harass him seems absurd. Most of the militia were men of the lower class and these men typically were some of the bigger proponents of slavery, simply so that they could stay above someone in the social order. Though there were many historical liberties taken with this film, the gross misrepresentation of colonial era slavery was the most egregious of the inaccuracies. -Bryan Mull | ||
== 2 Film's relationship to scholarship/primary sources from the time == | == 2 Film's relationship to scholarship/primary sources from the time == | ||
