Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The Americas were home to many anticolonial insurgencies during the Age of Revolution, and slavery was the main issue facing the Americas. The Founding Fathers looked to Europe for inspiration, and drew on the ideas of John Locke and other Enlightenment philosophers to construct rationales for racial slavery.
#2 The Age of Revolution saw the birth of Black radicalism, which was rooted in the Global South and their fight for freedom against European theories of domination.
#3 The American Revolution was a war to preserve slavery. The colonial upper class looked with trepidation at signs from Great Britain that foretold the demise of chattel bondage.
#4 The American Revolution was led by a group of guilty masters who were enslaving people themselves.
