African Americans Slaves

Slavery seemed inconsistent with the new ideas of the revolution. In 1776, 1 of every 5 Americans had African ancestors, and majority of African were enslave. The Loyalists and British used this to mock the Patriots. Some African Americans saw the Revolution as a fight for liberty, but their own liberty and freedom from slavery. Also some slaves sue their owner in court. They even enter the Patriots militia and Continental Army or the small navy. In return to that, the slaves would get freedom, but the Southern didn´t like the idea of black people using guns, they fear that they could rebel against them.
In the revolution it occur the idea of emancipation, to free slaves, but some people didn´t had the goodness of letting them free, but that was not all people, there were some that let the slaves free and gave them a paper that said that they were free but they were capture and slaved again.

In the North the slaves were only 5% of the population. There was a law going on of emancipation, this would free the slaves in the North, but this “good people” sold them to the south before the law was even passed. So emancipation failed.
The slaves were so important that they were necessary for plantation economy. There could even be a family of 5 members that owned 200 slaves. But some slaves were luck because their owners would free them but eventually they got caught again. This process was called manumission, but after 1800s the South passed a law to discourage manumission. But in the end, in 1810, more 20000 in the south were free, including 300 slaves from George Washington.