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- 1775 – John Murray, the 4th Earl of Dunmore and royal governor of Virginia, issued a proclamation promising freedom to any indentured servants, enslaved African Americans, or others held in bondage by American revolutionaries, so long as they were willing to bear arms for British troops fighting against American forces during the Revolutionary War. Dunmore’s Proclamation imposed martial law and stated that the American patriots had betrayed the Crown.