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How did slaves contribute to the American Revolution ?

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Some would fight for the british in return of their freedom.
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African Americans played an important role in the revolution. They fought at Fort Ticonderoga and the Battle of Bunker Hill. A slave helped row Washington across the Delaware. Altogether, some 5,000 free blacks and slaves served in the Continental army during the Revolution.

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