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The Philipsburg Proclamation is a historical document issued by British Army General Sir Henry Clinton on June 30, 1779 intended to encourage slaves to run away and enlist in the Royal Forces.[1][2]
Text
General Clinton issued the following proclamation:[3]
Whereas the enemy have adopted a practice of enrolling NEGROES among their Troops, I do hereby give notice That all NEGROES taken in arms, or upon any military Duty, shall be purchased for the public service at a stated Price; the money to be paid to the Captors.
But I do most strictly forbid any Person to sell or claim Right over any NEGROE, the property of a Rebel, who may take Refuge with any part of this Army: And I do promise to every NEGROE who shall desert the Rebel Standard, full security to follow within these Lines, any Occupation which he shall think proper.
Given under my Hand, at Head Quarters, PHILIPSBURGH the 30th day of June, 1779.
H CLINTON
Background
The proclamation extended the scope of Dunmore's Proclamation, issued four years earlier by Virginia's last Royal governor, Lord Dunmore, granting freedom to slaves in Virginia willing to serve the Royal forces. The new document, issued from Clinton's temporary headquarters at the Philipsburg Manor House in Westchester County, New York, proclaimed all slaves in the newly established United States belonging to American Patriots free, regardless of their willingness to fight for the British Crown.[4] It further promised protection, freedom and land to any slaves who left their master.[5]
The move was one of desperation on the part of the British, who realized that the Revolution was not going in their favor.[6] In a way it was too successful: so many slaves escaped (over 5,000 from Georgia alone), that Clinton ordered many to return to their masters.[7][8][9] Following the war, about 3,000 former slaves were relocated to Nova Scotia,[10] where they were known as Black Loyalists. Many continued on to Sierra Leone, where they established Freetown, its capital.
See also
References
[[Category:American Revolution]]
[[Category:United States documents]]
[[Category:Government documents]]
[[Category:Slavery in the United States]]
[[Category:History of the Thirteen Colonies]]
[[Category:Military history of the Thirteen Colonies]]
[[Category:1779 in the United States|1779]]
[[Category:1779 in international relations]]
[[Category:Proclamations]]
- ↑ Burrus M. Carnahan: Act of Justice: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War. University Press of Kentucky, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8131-2463-6, S. 18.
- ↑ REVOLUTIONARY WAR3/Sir Henry Clinton's Philipsburg Proclamation, June 30, 1779.jpg. Abgerufen am 7. Oktober 2007.
- ↑ Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Volume 6
- ↑ The Philipsburg Proclamation. Archiviert vom Original am 17. November 2007. Abgerufen am 7. Oktober 2007.
- ↑ Julie Hilvers: Freedom Bound: Black Loyalists. Archiviert vom Original am November 23, 2007. Abgerufen am 7. Oktober 2007.
- ↑ Who were the Black Loyalists?. Archiviert vom Original am 24. Oktober 2007. Abgerufen am 7. Oktober 2007.
- ↑ Shana Poplack: African American English in the Diaspora. Blackwell Publishing, 2001, ISBN 0-631-21266-3, S. 41–42.
- ↑ David Brion Davis: Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-19-514073-7, S. 150.
- ↑ Christopher Leslie Brown: Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age. Yale University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-300-10900-8, S. 190.
- ↑ Joanna Brooks: Face Zion Forward: First Writers of the Black Atlantic, 1785–1798. UPNE, 2002, ISBN 1-55553-540-2, S. 6.
