What Role Did Race Play in the American Revolution?

In the late eighteenth century, liberty was one of the central rallying cries of what we now call the age of revolution. What role did race play in those revolutionary ideals? W let me go back to the united states for a moment, because this has become a real issue in terms of studies of the american revolution. And how do you honor them like african Americans like july fourth 19 17 76 look at the revolution and see ourselves as embodied in that? Or do we not?