Was slavery the cause of the American revolution?
Slavery was not the active cause of the American Revolution. It played a passive role in it. The American Revolution took place between 1775 and 1783. Slavery was not a problem at that time as the American Colony whose economy depended on hand-picked crops like tobacco and cotton could not have survived without it. It was when the British government became too demanding that the leaders of the colonies organised themselves against their overlords and rebelled. This led to war and the British were eventually defeated with the help of the the French and expelled. As for slavery, many of the American leaders and heroes, such as Washington and Jefferson, were in fact slave owners themselves, and so were hardly likely to fight against it.