In the beginning of the Revolutionary war only a few militia’s had Black soldiers, mainly due to the fact that most colonies did not allow blacks to fight. Though, towards the end of the war, after the British initiated the rule that if Blacks fought for the British then they would be freed, the Colonies began to allow Black people to fight in the war.

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