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Prior to the American Revolution masters and revivalists spread Christianity to slave communities supported by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in the First Great Awakening of the mid-18th century Baptists and Methodists from New England preached a message against slavery encouraged masters to free their slaves converted both slaves and free blacks and gave them active roles in new congregations the first independent black congregations were started in the South before the Revolution in South Carolina and Georgia. Lincoln in 1857 In the 19th century proponents of slavery often defended the institution as a "necessary evil" White people of that time feared that emancipation of black slaves would have more harmful social and economic consequences than the continuation of slavery in 1820 Thomas Jefferson one of the Founding Fathers of the United States wrote in a letter that with slavery:, Martha Washington In the US as a whole by 1810 the number of free blacks reached 186,446 or 13.5 percent of all blacks. After that period few slaves were freed as the development of cotton plantations featuring short-staple cotton in the Deep South drove up the internal demand for slaves in the domestic slave trade and high prices were paid. Washington proceeded to New York City arriving on April 13 1776 and began constructing fortifications to thwart British attack He ordered his occupying forces to treat civilians and their property with respect to avoid the abuse suffered by civilians in Boston at the hands of British troops a plot to assassinate or capture him was discovered amidst the tensions but failed though his bodyguard Thomas Hickey (soldier) was hanged for mutiny and sedition. General Howe took his resupplied army with the British fleet from Nova Scotia to the city considered the key to securing the continent George Germain who ran the British war effort in England believed it could be won with one "decisive blow." the British forces including more than 100 ships and thousands of troops began reaching Staten Island on July 2 to lay siege to the city. After the Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4 Washington informed his troops in his general orders of July 9 that Congress had declared the united colonies to be "free and independent states.". .

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