The American colonists are painted as oppressed white slaves of Britain who wanted all slaves of any color to be free too.
Some of the more radical colonists painted themselves as slaves of the popish despot George III, in a Robinocratic Britain.
Lincoln was The Second Coming of Jefferson.
Or Paul's Message To All Gentiles of Color.
This is a Whig interpretation you might find from Vox, or say Dylan Matthews.
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