It's the Fourth of July, so it's a great day to revisit some of the people who influenced the Revolutionary Period. I encourage you to read more about the figures mentioned in the presentation below. There are many articles and books about them. If you are interested in Northern and Southern perspectives of the early United States, I recommend these books:
- In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks, 1700-1860 by James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton
- Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina, from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion by Peter H. Wood