Through all of these devices and circumstances-colonial charters for Protestant dissenters; occasional periods of Irish, Welsh, and Scottish ethnic persecution or flight; gathering of Europes Protestant refugees; German recruitment; relentless transportation of felons, debtors, military prisoners, and vagabonds; and a private emigrant agent business that ranged from serious recruitment to kidnapping-Britain turned a late entry in New World colonizing into the largest and fastest-growing clump of European settlement in the Western Hemisphere, with remarkably dual success. We have seen how this exodus made the population and culture of the British Isles less Celtic and more English, less revolutionary and antisocial and more deferential. It also positioned the fledgling United States of i8zo, with a very different population, and already set on a very different track, to become the preponderant demographic and political force in the new world. Kevin Phillips. The Cousins Wars: Religion, Politics, Civil Warfare, And The Triumph Of Anglo-America (p. 586). Kindle Edition.
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