Another additional source, “African-Americans in the Revolutionary War”, talks more about the work that the blacks had to do. 2% of the slaves in the North, were mainly used as personal servants, while in the South about 25% of the population composed of slaves working on large plantations and smaller farms as well as in manufacturing, brick-making, offloading ships, and almost all other forms of manual labor. The American colonists recognized that the slaves’ struggled to escape free of their white supporters and saw that it was similar to their own struggle for freedom from British rule. Slavery began to be seen as a social evil that reflected poorly on whites and on the country as a whole. Clearly, this was because of American colonists
