More History not taught in the US

The Revolution was all about "No Taxation without Representation."
Book TV on C-Span2 on Sundays led me to the following book:
NPR : Schama's Revolutionary Tale: 'Rough Crossings'
I'm sure it's available on ebay, it's here at Amazom, and probably at a local library (or should be.)

Slavery was becoming illegal (oh, those activist courts) in England and they were offering freedom to any slaves in the Americas to fight against the rebels. The got their freedom (and then the shaft, of course) and then went on to practice democracy in Africa. The survivors anyway.

"Whichever route he had taken, and whatever the trials he was presently enduring, British Freedom's choice of name proclaims something startling: a belief that it was the British monarchy rather than the new American republic that was more likely to deliver Africans from slavery. Although Thomas Jefferson, in the Declaration of Independence, had blamed "the Christian King" George III for the institution of slavery in America, blacks like British Freedom did not see the king that way at all. On the contrary, he was their enemy's enemy and thus their friend, emancipator and guardian."

It wasn't about freedom, like ever since, it was all about money.

Now, into the circle file...