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Freedom Round the Globe review: Did a planet in revolt create modern America?
Each chapter traces a revolutionary idea to a different corner of the globe. In Connecticut and the Caribbean, for instance, she examines how slavery transformed the meaning of liberty, giving rise to new political language and radical demands for freedom. The book is a litany of revolt, a kind of world tour of grievances, from Edinburgh to Guangzhou to Kolkata, and from St Kitts to Sierra Leone.
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