USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The right to freedom from slavery prohibits people being held in conditions in which the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised.

Detailed explanation-2: -Both free and enslaved men fought for American independence and for the British attempt to squash the rebellion. Most black Americans supported the British for reasons we know, but many served with the Continental Army because they believed in what the revolution presumably stood for.

Detailed explanation-3: -Freedom from slavery could be granted, purchased, or earned by means of escape. An individual who was “given his time” achieved an “unofficial” freedom. Thomas Jefferson granted freedom to seven enslaved men. Two were freed during Jefferson’s lifetime and five were freed by the terms of Jefferson’s will.

Detailed explanation-4: -Nance Legins-Costley (c. 1813–1892), born Nance Legins Cox, an African American, was the first slave legally manumitted (freed) by attorney Abraham Lincoln, in 1841, twenty years before the start of the American Civil War.