Dominic Sandbrook
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first heard Jul 2026
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Yeah, it's a complicated picture.
So Washington's a good example.
You know, Washington has slaves.
Washington at Valley Forge, when he's holed up there with his army, it's at that point when Rhode Island, struggling to fulfill its recruitment quota, becomes the first state or colony to buy the freedom of African Americans in order to recruit them and to meet its total and to send them to the Continental Army.
And Washington, even though he's a slave owner, even though that cuts against the philosophy of slavery, he accepts it.
And it's interesting that it's in 1778.
It's after...
black men have joined the Continental Army in large numbers that he writes to his steward back at Mount Vernon.
He says, we should stop selling slaves against their consent.
And there's a note in a letter to his steward where he mentions the enslaved people at Mount Vernon in passing.
And he says, I wish we could kind of get clear of this whole business.
No.
No.
That amazes people when we say that.
Yeah.
So that's why the French entry into the war is such a game-changing moment.
Because when the French joined the war in a big way, when French ships appear and the first 4,000 Frenchmen come ashore,
That is a game changer precisely because for the British, the priorities have completely changed.
So from this point onwards, for the British, it's like, right, let's protect.
We need to protect those colonies in the Caribbean because the health of our economy, the strength of the country depends on the sugar islands of the Caribbean.
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