"The Revolution Preserved Social Inequality"? Why or why not?

I think this question comes up a lot when people talk about the American Revolution because we always go on and on about the freedom that we earned and people start to ask, "Well who really was freed?" It certainly wasn't the slaves or the women. And even then there were still poor people working their butts off for some of the more rich families. So i would have to say yes and no, which seems to be the general consensus of the group. We were freed as a nation from the tyranny of Great Britain, but it took us a long time to overcome the tyranny we had put ourselves under regarding slaves, women, and social inequality. I think during this time religion had a lot to do with it. Some people could be upset with me saying this but in my opinion, plain and simple, old men used religion to control people during this time (and even still today). They twisted the context of the bible to say that slaves were inferior and women had no rights. I think this went on a long time before some people began to pull away from that thinking and that’s when we began to see a real change in the freedoms of women and slaves.