“Much as slavery in the United States was part of a larger Atlantic Slave System, so America’s War of Independence was an outgrowth of Europe’s Seven Years’ War – from 1756 to 1763 – and also a precursor or harbinger of the French and Haitian revolutions and of the subsequent Latin American wars for independence from Spain.”

“Much as slavery in the United States was part of a larger Atlantic Slave System, so America’s War of Independence was an outgrowth of Europe’s Seven Years’ War – from 1756 to 1763 – and also a precursor or harbinger of the French and Haitian revolutions and of the subsequent Latin American wars for independence from Spain.”

— David Brion Davis