Jake’s Reviews > The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America > Status Update

This book is excellent, but I don’t nearly have the vocabulary for it. I was looking up a word every single sentence so I had to give up.

I agree that the colonies were so dependent on slavery that Britain moving towards abolition was the main cause for revolution. In this light, US independence was NOT progress. The context of Spain’s influence in Florida and the Caribbean and the slave resistance was helpful.