RIP Bernard Bailyn, quite a historian. I would like to add one point about his contribution to the historiography of slavery... https://twitter.com/jennyschuessler/status/1291929219715469313

In his landmark book, Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, published in 1967, Bailyn recognized the centrality of the idea of slavery in Anglo-American political thought...

Moreover, slavery was more than an abstract metaphor. The Revolution put tremendous pressure on actually existing colonial slavery, he argued. Here's Bailyn's conclusion to this part of the book...

Of course other historians since 1967 have made different arguments about the relationship between slavery and the Revolution. But Bailyn, along with Edmund Morgan and David Brion Davis, identified the struggle over slavery as an essential part of the revolutionary era. /End