William Lamport Part 2: The First Declaration of Independence in the Americas

Welcome to William Lamport Part 2, where we discuss the radical politics and revolutionary potential of the mad lad William Lamport. Today we outline the colonial class structure, and racist caste system that had come to define life in the Spanish Empire during the mid-17th century. An ailing society in which everyone was willing to rebel but lacked a unifying cause. So came William Lamport seeking to galvanize that revolutionary potential and build a post-colonial state in a precapitalist world. We will examine how in 1642, 382 years ago, 134 years before the USA's declaration of Independence, William Lamport already imagined a society with land reparations for the Indigenous peoples of New Spain. We'll look into how more than 150 years before slavery was outlawed in the Western world William Lamport was prepared to fight and die for racial equality. We'll see, how, Just as the British Empire was establishing itself in the Caribbean, Lamport already saw something beyond Imperialism. This was and is the first Declaration of Independence in the Americas, A document that is beautifully progressive, confusingly archaic, and, depressingly forgotten. Today's story shows one lost tale of what could have been, and what was intentionally crushed. It is the story of Western hegemony and just one of the thousands of voices who spoke out against it.

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