| 1765-1783 |
Contests for Allegiance |
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| 1765-1775 |
boycotts |
| 1774 |
The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring and Feathering |
| 1775 |
Governor Dunmore, proclamation, Norfolk, Virginia |
| 1775-1776 |
escalation in Tory laws — from reconciliation to treason |
| 1775-1783 |
war |
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| 1775-1776 |
Formation of a “White” Continental Army |
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| July 1775 |
new Continental Army commander George Washington banned “Negroes” from army |
| January 1776 |
Continental Congress banned recruiting of or volunteering by any blacks, slave or free, into Continental Army |
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| 1778-1787 |
Contests for Enslaved Black Allegiance |
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| 1778 |
RI legislature created first Black Regiment; idea spread throughout war-weary New England (where least slaves and where greatest
war fatigue) |
| 1780 |
British army invaded South Carolina; used slaves as noncombatant laborers (no emancipation; segregation) |
| 1782 |
British army invaded Virginia; 30,000 slaves ran away |
| 1783 |
British army evacuated with 20,000 slaves (most sold into slavery in West Indies; some transported and freed in Nova Scotia, Canada) |
| 1787 |
Britain began to transport blacks from Canada and Britain to Sierra Leone, Africa, as “humanitarian” mission |