The Yorktown Tragedy: Washington's Slave Roundup - Journal of the American Revolution

Interesting article about the black Americans (freed and enslaved) who fought in the American Revolution. Having received an American education, I don't recall learning that black Americans heavily favored and fought for the British. Britain started on a path toward abolition in its own land after Somerset v Stewart, so slaveowners in America felt that the institution of slavery was under threat in the colonies as well. The continuation of slavery was therefore at least a minor factor in the American Revolution.