In the years before the Revolution or mid-eighteenth century, New England began to use slaves as ______

How were some urban slaves able to live independently of their owners?

Once the Revolutionary war began, fugitive slaves could often secure their freedom through

Why did many African Americans join mutual aid societies in the new Republic?

Manumission and antislavery societies decreased in the northern colonies in the years after the American Revolution.

Revolutionary rhetoric and ideas influenced African American slaves to

_______ promised freedom to slaves in return for service in the British army.

Why was the slave population in New England never self-sustaining?

________ was a slave artisan who likened his planned slave revolt to the actions of George Washington.

As in the Stono Rebellion of 1739, slave revolts and conspiracies often resulted in: