rned about this subject in high school, I believe that there were some slaves that tried to purchase their families freedom and found out that their family had changed hands and they didn’t know whose hands they were know in. There was a variety of information on the American Indians that I was rather unfamiliar with as well. I did not know much about how the Africans or the American Indians came to participate in either the French and Indian or Revolutionary War. I did have a small base upon which to build regarding the American Indians involvement in the French and Indian War. I recall learning that the War was essentially because of the fur trade. I didn’t realize that their were already Indians from other nations fighting on the side of the French that encouraged the American Indians who were trying to maintain their peaceful ways to go to war in order to defend themselves and their families. This again however was the first time I really learned about how the Africans and the American Indians came to participate in the wars and what had happened to them. Much of the information about the various colonial statesman I had heard before, some of the information I had learned previously was not as thorough or easy to understand as the view that was presented regarding their various opinions of what was occurring and how that would effect the future of the colonies. I think what made this information even easier to understand was the concept of using their background and attitudes at the same time as the explanation. In grade school when you learn about historical leaders, you learn about their background and than what they did. By intertwining the two I was better able to understand why the leaders felt certain ways about certain things much easier. Another aspect that made films such as the Liberty series much easier to follow was the whole idea of using people to dress up and historically recreate various people...
