HI330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Northwest Ordinance, African-American Upper Class, Cotton Gin
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Try to replenish the number of slaves that ran away. Spirit of liberty and revolution shook up the institution in the usa. Military service beginning in the revolutionary area was the beginning of political activism by some black leaders. Boston king exemplifies the reasons why some fought for the british side and why others did not. Worked with race horses and experienced an unusual amount of travel as a slave. His master was kind to him but his experience with other whites led him to be wary of the kindness whites showed him. Certificates of freedom (him and violet) from the british general carleton. Nova scotia where he became a methodist minister. Enlisted helps save the unit by going to get reinforcements when they were outnumbered he served as an orderly. At the end of the war he is afraid that the british will have deals with slave masters.