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# Liberty for Whom? Slavery, Protest and the Ideals of the Revolution
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/the-american-revolution/extras/liberty-for-whom-slavery-protest-and-the-ideals-of-the-revolution-1gjg0d/
- Published: 2025-11-05T18:45:53.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-12T20:12:47.000Z
- Description: The revolutionary ideals of liberty spread across the colonies while many suffer from enslavement.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: The American Revolution, #ZZZ_Show_f16516f8-e9bd-49d8-b49b-96781c68070a, #v1.7, #ZZZ_Extra_d3e58329-2acf-490d-80ef-0a6421804233, #extra

Committees of Correspondence form in hundreds of Massachusetts towns linking advocates of resistance and spreading the message and ideals of revolution. Eventually, the network spans into all colonies. While revolutionaries praise liberty, thousands suffer under the bondage of slavery including Phillis Wheatley, who becomes the first African American writer to publish a book while enslaved.