Effects Of The Revolutionary War

The revolutionary war ran deep in the structure of the British empire thus transforming the British state itself. The seven-year war also known as the French and Indian war, this war created unprecedented problems of finance and control for Britain. In the war's early years, the colonies traded with the enemy and refused to pay for British military operations. The War officially came to an end on February 10, 1763, with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. France of properly given in all of its holdings in North America, west of the Mississippi; while recruiting the Islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique. The most long lasting effect of the war was not between the parties rather; it was the effect the war had on the American colonies. The cost …show more content…
In certain numbers, blacks totaled maybe seventy thousand but no more than 5 percent of them were free. The majority of the blacks, whether slave or free, lived in the countryside and worked the land, planting, harvesting, and preparing crops for market. Those who lived in North Carolina’s few towns worked at trades or were servants to slaveholders. A few of them were “hired out” by their owners to work for others who needed their labor. All of their earnings, except maybe for a small allowance, went to the slaves’ owners. African Americans played a great role in the revolution. They fought at Fort Ticonderoga and the Battle of Bunker Hill. A slave helped row Washington across the Delaware. Altogether, approximately 5,000 free blacks and slaves served in the Continental army during the Revolution. By 1778, many states, including Virginia, acknowledged freedom to slaves who served in the Revolutionary war. The American Revolution had serious effects on the institution of slavery. Several thousand slaves won their freedom by serving on both sides of the War of Independence. As a result of the Revolution, an amazing number of slaves were manumitted, while thousands of others freed themselves by running away. In Georgia alone, 5000 slaves, a third of the colony's prewar total, ran away. In South Carolina, a quarter of the slaves achieved freedom. In the end, more than 3,000 blacks left from New York with the British, most bound for Nova Scotia in Canada. At least 8,300 blacks were seized to East Florida from Savannah and Charleston. Of course many remained in a state of slavery to loyalists who had fled. But many had earned their freedom during the