African American Revolution Impact On Women

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The American Revolution had a big impacted on both the slaved African American and the Women. The slaves had the most impact from the Revolution. Most of the slave life was working on a plantation. They worked from sun-up to sun- down, had no rights and could not leave the plantation without paper work from their owner. When the African American’s heard about the war they saw it as an opportunity to become free. Many white Americans were fighting the war for their freedom but not the slaves. Then Britain told the slaves that if they were to help them in the war they would give them freedom. But one problem with that, most of them did not know how to read or write, so they did not understand how war worked. The slave fought on both sides, about