African Americans played a pivotal role in the war in which sealed their own fates and in turn helped shape the United States. Shi and Tindall, note in our textbook that “[t]he sharpest irony of the American Revolution is that Britain offered enslaved blacks more opportunities for freedom than did the new United States” (Shi & Tindall, 2015, p. 176). African Americans were primarily slaves and lacked little to no rights at all. When the war began it came with opportunities for the enslaved negro communities. The British were promising freedom to slaves as incentive in exchange for fighting towards the Loyalist cause. Many slaves were brought into the New America against their will and were brought into a hard life of manual labor and racism
