Much as slavery in the United States was.... : Quote by David Brion Davis

“ Much as slavery in the United States was part of a larger Atlantic Slave System, so America’s War of Independence was an outgrowth of Europe’s Seven Years’ War — from 1756 to 1763 — and also a precursor or harbinger of the French and Haitian revolutions and of the subsequent Latin American wars for independence from Spain. ”

David Brion Davis
  • From : Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
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