Report, if you have a problem with this page“ 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