At the time of the American Revolution, the situation in the colonies was far from satisfactory for African-Americans, free or enslaved. Although slavery had never caught hold in the northern colonies as it did in the south, the institution was legal everywhere at the start of the Revolution. The American Revolution gave enslaved African Americans unprecedented opportunities to escape from slavery by serving in the British or Continental armies.…
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