Historian David Blight continues Yale's DeVane Lecture Series with a session on slavery's place in the American Revolutionary era. Blight, teaching the course Can It Happen Here Again? Yale, Slavery, and Legacies, traces how the ideals of liberty proclaimed during the Revolution coexisted with, and were shaped by, chattel slavery in the colonies and the young republic. He connects Yale's own institutional history to the broader question of how slavery structured early American law, politics, and economics. The lecture treats slavery as a central rather than peripheral thread in the founding period, building toward the course's larger argument about recurring hinge points in American history when the fate of a pluralistic constitutional order has been genuinely in doubt. Delivered as a standard classroom lecture with Blight speaking directly to students, it assumes some familiarity with the course's earlier sessions on Yale's founding and colonial-era slavery.