Slave insurgency during the American Revolution predated and exceeded British instigation

Evidence

Nonetheless, as Jeffrey Crow cautions, the slaves’ response to the machinations of the British General Thomas Gage, and Lord Dunmore, governor of colonial Virginia, had its independent context: … But the slave unrest that accompanied the opening stages of the war was too widespread to have been the work of a single British conspiracy, though royal governors and military observers had often commented on the potential for a massive slave insurrection in the southern colonies. From the Chesapeake to the Georgia coast, black insurgents sprang into action even before the British tendered their help. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 718

Categorization

• XREF: Reinforces Robinson’s thesis that Black radicalism is autonomous and self-generated, not merely reactive to white colonial rivalries.