American Revolution: Women & Slaves

American Revolution: Women & Slaves

American Revolution was the one the most important event in the history of America. It made possible, the formation of a United States of America. It was a defining event in shaping American life for the future. A new constitution was written for ruling the country. America white American male had fought to gain liberty from the British rule. But the same people fighting for the liberty were the ones who were taking away liberty of others. Thus the revolution did little to change the living condition of anyone except the white American male. But it did make the first step towards creating a racial and gender equality in America.
America fought for independence in 1775. It gained its independence in 1783 under the treaty of Paris. The cause of the revolution was the anger of the Americans over the British attempt to control their lives. In other words, they were fighting to get freedom. Slavery was a common practice then throughout the world. In America, African population was used as slaves. Their numbers in America had increased to a large amount. African slaves had virtually no rights or way of gaining freedom (except running away) before the revolution. But during the revolution, the British used the Africans in America to fight for them. They promised them freedom in exchange for their service. Reluctantly, the revolutionary army followed suit. This was the first ever step towards the end of slavery. Thousands of African slaves gained their freedom from by this method. After the revolutionary war, a new government was formed. One the new acts of the government was to end the slave trade, but it was unable to end slavery altogether. In the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the central government banned slavery in the northwestern territory of the USA. Quakers, a religious group, were one of the pioneers who worked towards abolishing slavery. These were the few major changes in terms of slavery that occurred due to the American Revolution. On contrary, most the...

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