Agrippa Hull was born free, and claimed to be the son of an African prince. Andrzej Tadeusz Bonaventura Kosciuszko was born in 1746 into an impoverished family of minor Polish nobility. Kosciuszko ended up in 1776 seeking a post with the Revolutionary army in America. He was brilliant at constructing fortifications.

Lemuel Haynes was a Minute Man in 1774, fighting in the Northern Campaign from the seizure of Fort Ticonderoga with Ethan Allen through the unsuccessful campaign to capture Montreal and Quebec in 1776. At about age 20, a crisis of conversion confirmed his place in the Congregational church. He began preparing for the ministry in the mid-1770s, studying Latin, Greek, hermeneutics and Calvinist theology. He adopted a New Divinity minister named Job Swift as a spiritual father.

America’s working classes — farmers, mechanics, laborers, seamen, servants, and slaves 00 would make the American Revolution a revolution. They would not all realize their dreams, but they would power the struggle, materially, martially, and politically, indeed, at a most crucial moment, literally.

This ebook, as the subtitle says, is a comprehensive summary of the origins of racial distinctions and slavery in North America. It begins with the late Roman empire, and continues through the Visigoths and caliphates, to the explosive growth of sugar plantations.

This book highlights the dark sides of the American Revolution, while leaving some of the brighter developments visible. Revolutions have to be financed.

This book offers a bright side to the American Revolution, with some clear warnings about the dark side. It features three wealthy and prominent families, not the wealthiest among the united colonies, who committed themselves to independence. The elder generation of at least two families had owned slaves — the generation that organized resistance to British rule refused.