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When the Declaration of Independence was penned, there were several terms that gave African Americans great hope: “We hold these truths to be self-evident,” it was written, “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights…life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”When they heard this, slaves hoped that it meant freedom for them. For freed African Americans it was the chance to be treated with equity. Neither of these dreams was to come about soon. During the war African Americans had played a role in support of the Continental Army, Navy and American privateers who went up against British forces. Documents of the era include numerous mentions of bravery and self- sacrifice by African Americans from the Boston Massacre to the surrender at Yorktown. Despite these sacrifices, there was little immediate, tangible (Links to an external site.) improvement in free black Americans’ lives because of the Revolution, and none at all for those held in slavery.However, the Declaration of Independence and the Revolution did speed the abolition of slavery in the northern states and plant the seeds of the abolition movement deeply in the minds and hearts of some Americans. They also established the initial distinction and tensions between the slave-free North and the slave-based South. At the close of the Revolution, free blacks seized the opportunity to develop their own communities and establish their own schools, churches, and support networks that had not been available previously. In the coming years such organizations would stand at the core of the abolition movement and the Underground Railroad used to slip slaves to freedom.
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