1776 
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SOURCE: PBS News Hour
7/4/2023
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.
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SOURCE: TIME
7/4/2021
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.
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7/28/19
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.
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