1776

The American Revolution Remains a Hotly Contested Symbolic Field

AHA Executive Director Jim Grossman says that the founding can't be understood without understanding the founders' worldview and actions, which, as a matter of pure fact, incorporated an acceptance and embrace of slavery. 

You Can't Tell the Story of 1776 Without Talking About Race and Slavery

by Robert G. Parkinson

John Adams worked diligently in the years after the Declaration to craft an origin story of common purpose that obscured the importance of issues of race and slavery to the pursuit of independence. 

Would Slavery Have Ended Sooner if the British Won the American Revolutionary War?

by Keith Brooks

After its victory, the U.S. went on to become an empire unparalleled in history, its wealth origins rooted largely in slave labor.