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In 1775 , Lord Dunmore issued a controversial proclamation, to be known later as ''Lord Dunmore's Proclamation'', calling on all able bodied men to assist him in the defense of the colony, including the enslaved Africans of rebels. These recruits were promised their freedom in exchange for service in the Army. Some Loyalist slave owners feared a mass slave rebellion; others thought Dunmore had gone mad. Within a month 800 soldiers had flocked to Norfolk to join up and they were organised into the Ethiopian Regiment. Lord Dunmore's Proclamation was the first mass emancipation of enslaved people in American history. |
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