In the post-Revolutionary world, Blacks, Native Americans, and women were the minorities in a new country poised to privilege the majority, the free-white males. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." But the plantation owners and merchants in the colonies, as well as the drafter of these lines (Thomas Jefferson), had a different vision as the war for independence was also a war to preserve slavery. Have you heard of Lemuel Haynes? Haynes was a free Black man and Revolutionary War veteran, who like thousands of his Black countrymen, had fought for their freedom only to be denied their rights. What kind of revolution was the American Revolution?
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