What was the vision of revolution that many African Americans held pri

What was the vision of revolution that many African Americans held prior to the American Revolution?

How did the vision of revolution of many African Americans differ from that of most whites in the colonies?

ANSWER
Answer: An ideal answer will:
1. Discuss that one key component of African Americans’ vision of the coming American Revolution included the complete abolishment of slavery in all 13 colonies.
2. Discuss that African Americans vision of the coming Revolution also included outlawing the slave trade in the United States.
3. Discuss how African Americans such as poet Phillis Wheatley were motivated by English poets, Christianity, and discussions of democracy to develop a vision of freedom that included white colonists as well as African slaves.
4. Discuss how some whites, such as the Quakers, embraced the vision of Revolutionary freedom that would include abolition of slavery throughout the colonies.
5. Discuss how some whites hoped the coming American Revolution would be the capstone of a legal evolution in the United States favoring judicially successful challenges of slaves seeking their freedom.
6. Discuss how some whites’ conception of freedom that would come with a political revolution could not be enjoyed by African American slaves because of their perceived inferior intellectual and emotional status.
7. Discuss how the highly profitable condition of the colonial slave trade made even whites who intellectually equated revolutionary freedom for whites with freedom for African American slaves reluctant to support abolishing slavery and the slave trade in all 13 colonies.