tally crushed in the evil and inhumane treatment of African Americans?
In fact, despite the legalized oppression, torture, and murder of African Americans in slavery, those slaves before, during, and after the Revolution themselves actively rebelled again and again against their hypocritical oppressors. Most of the revolts examined by Frey took place after the war, but they were nevertheless part of the historical process whereby slaves would eventually gain their freedom. Frey examines one series of slaves' actions which is instructive in terms of its exposure of the connection between the revolution of Americans against the British and the slaves' resistance to American oppression.
With the presence of whites' claims that the struggle for independence had its basis in the principles of freedom, slaves began to believe that the circumstances were such that they themselves might more openly struggle for freedom. They expected freedom to be granted not by the Americans but by the British. However, the British would prove to be as unconcerned about the freedo
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