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Explain why free and enslaved African Americans fought for and against the Patriots.

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The answer that i think is......Slaves and free blacks fought for the Continentals and for the British during the Revolutionary War.

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Both free and enslaved African Americans fought both for and against the Patriots, as some African Americans who were enslaved were promised freedom for fighting, while free African Americans were promised a large sum of money.
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