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Step-by-step explanation:
The Revolution had contradictory effects on slavery. The northern states either abolished the institution outright or adopted gradual emancipation schemes. In the South, the Revolution severely disrupted slavery, but ultimately white Southerners succeeded in strengthening the institution.
After the American Revolution, many colonists—particularly in the North, where slavery was relatively unimportant to the agricultural economy—began to link the oppression of enslaved Africans to their own oppression by the British, and to call for slavery's abolition.
The Blacks who fled to the side of the British did not risk their lives because of loyalty to the Crown. They did so in order to gain their freedom and pursue their vision of equality and justice in a territory where the slave trade had been abolished.