Lafayette is a good example. He was a young, idealistic French aristocrat who came here to fight. Wood First, slavery and all forms of dependency become challenged, and a question. White indentured servitude was very common by the middle of the 18th century. By the end of the 18th century, it had virtually disappeared.
Slavery is made a problem.
In the Northern states it is abolished as a consequence of the Revolution. In the South, of course, it persists, but had to be defended in a way it never did before. Prof. Wood Pulaski and the other foreigners joined in what seems to be an exhilarating moment in Western history. Not all that different from participation in the Spanish civil war in the 1930s. Wood Many Americans thought it was divinely inspired.