Like his other major series, he’ll end up wasting a quarter of the programming telling us how bad black people had it.
There were some good parts, especially on the strictly military side of the Revolution, but veered off to talk about slavery too often, or about whites stealing “Indian land.” He did admit that the British leaders who were encouraging the slaves to run away from their masters were slaveowners themselves, and mentioned the rapes committed by the British regulars in New Jersey.