What are at least two different examples of how Black Americans protested in favor of freedom and/or against
slavery in actions or in words during the years before the Declaration of Independence (1776)? (Consider, for
example, Peter Bestes and Phillis Wheatley.) How did those in power – British authorities or white Patriot
revolutionaries – respond to these actions or statements of protest? (Consider, for example, Lord Dunmore and
Thomas Jefferson.) Why do you think that claims to rights on the part of African Americans and debates on the
issue of slavery intensified on the eve of the Revolution? Required sections: Holton, Black Americans,
Introduction, Documents – The Coming of the Revolution.
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