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Liberty Is Sweet The Hidden History of the American Revolution

Woody Holton

A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters. Using more than a thousand eyewitnes...

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

He explained that the book examined oftenoverlooked groups--Native Americans, enslaved Africans and others--and argued that material interests, not just ideas, drove the American Revolution.

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His new book, Liberty is Sweet, The Hidden History of the American Revolution, looks at the ways that often overlooked groups, from Native Americans on the western border of the British colonies to en...

— Episode: The Story of America's Founding You Were...

Episode: The Story of America's Founding You Weren’t Taught...

He explained that the book examined oftenoverlooked groups--Native Americans, enslaved Africans and others--and argued that material interests, not just ideas, drove the American Revolution.

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His new book, Liberty is Sweet, The Hidden History of the American Revolution, looks at the ways that often overlooked groups, from Native Americans on the western border of the British colonies to enslaved Africans within them, shaped the war, its outcome, and its aftermath.

So you have a new book out, Liberty is Sweet, that is about the beginnings of the American Revolution that causes the events and pressures that lead up to at least one set of colonists breaking from Britain.

The Rest Is History

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The Rest Is History

The hosts cited Holt's book to argue that the Battle of Lexington would not have occurred if British officers had known colonists' resolve, and later used it to compare Lord Dunmore's proclamation to Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

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I was reading Woody Holt's book, Liberty is Sweet. And he says of the battle of Lexington, that it would not have occurred if the officers leading the British column had known that the colonists were...

— Episode: 348: The Boston Tea Party (Part 2)

Episode: 348: The Boston Tea Party (Part 2)

The hosts cited Holt's book to argue that the Battle of Lexington would not have occurred if British officers had known colonists' resolve, and later used it to compare Lord Dunmore's proclamation to Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

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I was reading Woody Holt's book, Liberty is Sweet. And he says of the battle of Lexington, that it would not have occurred if the officers leading the British column had known that the colonists were determined not to be the aggressors.

Reading Woody Houlton again, Liberty is Sweet, he says of this declaration which is basically an emancipation proclamation and Houlton compares it overtly to Lincoln's emancipation proclamation almost a century later.

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