Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
As freemen, some black soldiers, such as those in the 1st Rhode Island, went on to live new lives. A far too large number, however, were forced to return to slavery. Some did so for a little period of time until their owners remembered their promise to release them in exchange for their service, while others, who had battled for freedom, were condemned to live as slaves forever.
However, Lord Dunmore, the British Royal Governor of Virginia, declared in November 1775 that he would free any slave who disobeyed his master and joined the British army. 300 people joined what Dunmore called his "Ethiopian Regiment" within a month. Congress and Washington decided to change course in response, allowing enrolled free blacks to stay in the army and opening recruitment to free blacks after the action alarmed Patriot slaveholders.