Alan Gilbert's Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence argues that there were actually two American Revolutions: one by whites against British rule, the other by blacks against slavery. Gilbert, a professor in the University of Denver's school of international studies, has spent much of his career working on political philosophy and Marxism. In this book he transitions into the history of the American Revolution, highlighted by impressive research that demonstrates that black participation in both the British royal army and the Patriot forces was higher than we previously knew.
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