How does our view of the Revolution change if we view it from the Gulf Coast or Mississippi River? Kathleen DuVal, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, joins us to talk about her book, Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution . We hear about Bernardo de Galvez, the Spanish governor of Louisiana, Alexander MacGillivray, the leader of the Creeks, as well as exiled Scots, Irish, and Cajuns and the African-American spy from Mobile Petit Jean, and the roles they played during this clash of empires on the Gulf Coast. in the Revolutionary era on the Gulf Coast.