“The Freedom narrative spans from the American Revolution’s origins in the nature of colonial British America—a society in which freedom was limited and in which everyone was the subject of a distant monarch—through the crisis in the British Empire that followed the French and Indian War, to the events of the War for Independence itself, and ultimately to the creation of the first great republic in modern history.” American HistoryUs HistoryAmerican Revolution Book:Freedom: The Enduring Importance of the American Revolution Source: Freedom: The Enduring Importance of the American Revolution