- Philipsburg Proclamation
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document_name=Philipsburg Proclamation
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date_created=June 30, 1779
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writer=General Sir Henry Clinton
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purpose=To encourage slave revolts in theUnited States The Philipsburg Proclamation is a
historical document issued by Sir Henry Clinton onJune 30 , . [Citation |last=Hilvers |first=Julie |title=Freedom Bound: Black Loyalists |url=http://www.nku.edu/~freedomchronicle/OldSiteArchive/archive/issue4/studentscorner.php |accessdate=2007-10-07]The plan was in a way too successful. [cite book |last=Poplack |first=Shana |authorlink=Shana Poplack |title=African American English in the Diaspora |publisher=
Blackwell Publishing |date=2001 |pages=41-42 |isbn=0631212663] So many slaves escaped (over 5000 from Georgia alone), that Clinton ordered many to return to their masters. [cite book |last=Davis |first=David Brion |authorlink=David Brion Davis |title=Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=2006 |pages=150 |isbn=0195140737] [cite book |last=Brown |first=Christopher Leslie |authorlink=Christopher Leslie Brown |title=Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age |publisher=Yale University Press |date=2006 |pages=190 |isbn=0300109008] Following the war, about 3000 former slaves were taken toNova Scotia . [cite book |last=Brooks |first=Joanna |authorlink=Joanna Brooks |title=Face Zion Forward: First Writers of the Black Atlantic, 1785-1798 |publisher=UPNE |date=2002 |pages=6 |isbn=1555535402]ee also
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Black Loyalist
*African American settlers (Sierra Leone) References
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